Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Richter wrote:

>
> Per Wikipedia (consistent with my faulty memory):
>
> "The Compact Disc reached the market in late 1982 in Asia and early the
> following year in other markets."

By late 1982 (October 20th, to be specific) I had moved from Toronto to
Edmonton, but a live-to-air demonstration of compact discs on the CBC Stereo
Network had occurred in my presence in Toronto prior to that date. Definitely
before the first week in September.

dl

>
>
> The same source reports:
>
> "The first hard disk drive was the IBM 350 Disk File, invented by
> Reynold Johnson and introduced in 1955 with the IBM 305 computer."
>
> Here, I can attest that as of Summer 1957, the state of the art in
> practice was the 4K drum memory of the IBM 650.
>
> I did not have a CD pressed until 1996, but at that time the broker
> still handled Exabyte tape - the format he reported to have been used
> frequently before CD-R and Jaz came into use.
>
> Mike
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