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Waveform Audio File Format  |  1994-06-16  |  2.9 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  2 minutes, 17 seconds
Transcription: Back in the old days. You mean when you were a kid. No, actually only about 10 years ago. Multimedia used to mean anything that combined two media. A slideshow with background music for instance. When we talk about multimedia PC's though, we're looking for a computer that can sing and dance. That is one that can play music, sound effects, animation or video images all at once. To be a true multimedia machine, a PC also needs a CD-ROM driver. Why the CD? Well, sound and video use a lot of memory. The sentence I'm speaking now, for instance, uses 141 kilobytes of disk space. At that rate, a few ...