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Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)
I have a copy,of a famous Lp,called "Music From Mathematics" (Decca 9103),of music made by the IBM 7090
http://www.317x.com/albums/i/IBM/card.html ,that dates from 1961,that claims to be the first digitally recorded record. As for Soundstream,I thought they were a competing system,being developed at the same time,as the Philips/Sony one,sort of like VHS vs Beta,but it seems they were the first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundstream
Roger Kulp
Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 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"
To:
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"
>> To:
>> 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 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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