Computer, TV converge in Apple set: product includes CD-ROM and user can play data and audio discs, view photo CD's and hook up coaxial cable, stereo, VCR and video games. (new Macintosh television-computer combination)

Product includes CD-ROM and user can play data and audio discs, view photo CD's and hook up coaxial cable, VCR and video games

Apple Computers has finally broken the barrier between computers and television.

Apple's new Macintosh television appears to be the first integrated TV and computer on the market, featuring a Macintosh LC520 computer and the TV tube from a Sony Trinitron in a single plastic body. A viewer can switch between television and the computer monitor.

Macintosh TV product manager Bruce Gee says that the new device, which lists for $2,079, is targeted to first-time computer users and people with space constraints, such as students in …