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In Reply to: The only reason CDs were invented is that Hard Drives were too Expensive........ posted by Cut-Throat on June 22, 2012 at 16:47:27:
>> The only reason CDs were invented is that Hard Drives were too Expensive........
The "ONLY" reason? Ummm, not quite.
First, the CD was invented in the 1970s and released to the public in 1982. The IBM XT with a 10 MB hard drive didn't come out until 1983 (we bought one that year where I worked at the time.) Hard drive space was far too precious and storage size way too limited to use for music. Note that it would be another 10 years before the MP3 compression codec became available.
Second, hard drive or not, one still needs a way to distribute music to the public. When the CD was released in 1982, dial-up modems with a transfer rate of 1200 baud were the hot rods of the day (many home users still used 300 baud) and your on-line time was charged by the minute.
Downloading an uncompressed music file (no MP3 yet and the zip file didn't exist either at that point) would have been an impossible task with no place to store it if you could get it.
In short, the music CD was a pretty miraculous invention in its day and there simply was no other digital alternative.
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Follow Ups
- RE: The only reason CDs were invented is that Hard Drives were too Expensive........ - mls-stl 07:57:12 06/24/12 (4)
- I was in the computer industry for 30 years........... - Cut-Throat 11:25:52 06/24/12 (3)
- "Cost savings" - mls-stl 12:37:13 06/24/12 (2)
- You're a Nit Picker...* - Cut-Throat 12:49:00 06/24/12 (1)
- Curious... - mls-stl 13:32:23 06/24/12 (0)
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