I remember when Sun Micro decided they could give their customers CDROM drives and save money shipping SunOS on CD rather than quarter inch tape (QIC). As I recall they were the first to do that. I also remember Eric Schmidt cringing at the price of buying a 'gold master' machine that could cut a master disk for the replication services.
<a href="http://article.olduse.net/7038@philabs.UUCP" rel="nofollow">http://article.olduse.net/7038@philabs.UUCP</a><p>That's the second ever mention of the CD made on Usenet, back in July 1982.<p>"It has no grooves, the digitally
encoded recording lies beneath the disc surface, invulnerable to dirt and damage."
Funny, I still remember buying my first CD as a kid, Motley Crue's Girls, Girls, Girls (ouch!). The packaging back then was different and they'd put the CDs in long boxes whereas now you just buy it in the jewel case. I remember how cool it was getting a boombox that had a tape deck and a CD player and being able to make better mixtapes.
This article also reminds me of where I used to pick up CD's back when they first came out - Tower Records in Mountain View, CA. CD's - still around; Tower Records - not so much. Interesting how it all worked out.
Three years late to the party (because I couldn't afford a CD player) one customer instead of defaulting on a payment offered me his CD player instead. It came with this CD:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_in_Arms_%28Dire_Straits_album%29" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_in_Arms_%28Dire_Strait...</a><p>And I'm going to have to play it now, for old times sake. Haven't played a CD in years.
After reading this I just had to check just to see if we had a copy of 52nd Street, yep - <a href="https://www.murfie.com/albums/billy-joel-52nd-street--2" rel="nofollow">https://www.murfie.com/albums/billy-joel-52nd-street--2</a>
The compact disc has always felt to me to be a decade ahead of its time. In 30 years of removable storage media, we've only managed to go from CD's 700MB to BDXL's 128GB. That's only 182 times the capacity, or 2^7.5