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- From: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick)
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- Subject: Re: Life after CDs
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- Date: 27 Jul 92 00:37:03 GMT
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- smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:
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- >There is a story (probably apocryphal, anyone know?) that the 74 minutes
- >time was chosen because it was just long enough to hold the Sony MD's wife's favourite piece of classical music...
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- The story I heard was that it was just long enough to get Beethoven's 9th on
- in full (I don't know who's rendition), but this leads to the next question,
- what is the actual maximum that you can get on a CD?
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- Changes - David Bowie > 76 minutes (I will find out exactly tonight).
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- Regs,
- Phil.
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