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- From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.audio,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Life after CDs
- Date: 23 Jul 1992 13:53:23 GMT
- Organization: SunConnect
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- References: <1992Jul20.192541.1069@access.usask.ca> <Brr3A6.5IA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Jul23.041115.20377@bilver.uucp>
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- In article <1992Jul23.041115.20377@bilver.uucp>, bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
-
- >
- > They [Sony] couldn't break themselves of thinking 12" - ala LP's or
- > LDs. I took Philips to come up with an under 5" disk. And
- > then Sony and Philips got together and standardized on the
- > current 12cm disk that sped'ed out at 74 minutes.
- >
- >
- 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...
-
- Steve
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