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

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think there were digital-original LPs early than 1978 but I might be wrong. I think 2-track PCM 
recording onto videotape was possible before that and I think Soundstream had invented their 
instrumentation-recorder-based system before that.

Actually -- perhaps the first digital-original recording was the Bell Labs mini-LP showing off their 
voice-synthesis computer, circa early or mid 1960's.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)


> Wasn't the first LP from digital originals an Odyssey release (c. 1978) of flute
> sonatas, recorded in Japan a couple of years earlier? I remember that info being
> proclaimed on the jacket. Telemann flute sonatas or trio sonatas or something
> along those lines.
>
> Gawd those first "Digital!" lps from Angel, London and DGG were ghastly..Angel's
> were also low level, not what we needed in those days of lousy vinyl.
>
> dl
>
> David Lewiston wrote:
>
> > Um. Somewhat before that, I'm pretty sure.
> >
> > I recall sitting with Tracey Sterne while she was still at Nonesuch (Warner
> > fired her in '79) and hear her bitch about the atrocious unmusicality of the
> > new medium.
> >
> > Salutations, David Lewiston
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Roger and Allison Kulp" <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: September 05, 2006 10:08 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)
> >
> > > Japan.Sony inroduced them,like 1981 or so.
> > > Roger Kulp
> > >
> > > steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Don Cox"
> > >> How did engineers make the first CDs, when hard drives were not big
> > >> enough to hold 600 Megs of data?
> > >>
> > > Actually, I'm not sure...but one way it COULD have been done is with
> > > magnetic tape storage, since that was used on mainframe computers at
> > > least in the early seventies, if not before. When I was working my
> > > way through university as a security guard for State Farm ('74-'76)
> > > I recall seeing carts loaded with HUGE reels of data tape...and I
> > > have no idea what the length v. data capacity algorithm might have
> > > been (or how many reels of tape, if more than one, would be needed
> > > to store the digital capacity of a CD...?)
> > >
> > > In fact, where WERE CD's introduced commercially?
> > >
> > > Steven C. Barr
> > >
> > >
> > >
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