Congratulations to our old friend, the compact disc. It turned 25 today. Yes, it was on August 17 of 1982 that the first CD's began rolling off an assembly line in Germany. The shiny little discs, each containing millions of bytes of digital audio information, would soon come to dominate music sales. And even as those initial pressings of Richard Strauss' "Alpine Symphony" were preparing to make their debut, engineers were hard at work developing an impenetrable cellophane wrapper in which to put the discs.
Always an early adaptor, on August 17 of 1982 I was debating whether to replace my 8-track Captain and Tennille collection with cassettes.
Always an early adaptor, on August 17 of 1982 I was debating whether to replace my 8-track Captain and Tennille collection with cassettes.
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