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- From: markb@tplrd.tpl.oz.au (Mark Bower)
- Subject: Re: New (to me) laser-beam pickup application
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.221922.28550@tplrd.tpl.oz.au>
- Organization: Telectronics Pacing Systems
- References: <1992Dec30.065648.29072@ole.cdac.com> <72811@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:19:22 GMT
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- In article <72811@cup.portal.com> Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com writes:
- >By now we all (hopefully) know that lasers are used to read signals from
- >CDs and videodiscs, but last weekend while visiting friends over Christmas
- >I heard of a new application for the same (or similar) technology: reading
- >good ol' vinyl records by contactless laser pickup. Has anyone here heard
- >of this, and can anyone provide any details on HOW it is being done? This
- >is one of those ideas that, to me, seems obvious in retrospect, and "it's
- >a wonder nobody thought of it sooner."
-
- I remember reading something about this in either Popular Science or
- Popular Mechanics during either 1986 or 1987. As far as I know, the
- project eventually died due to the lack of funding and the
- popularity of CD's which became much more prevalent while the
- laser reading record player was trying to get attention.
-
- Cheers,
- Mark
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