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Happy Birthday
To the humble compact disk who is 25 years old today.
I remember them coming out too...
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20-08-2007, 11:00
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Wasn't this birthday last week?
I remember it too. My brother and I went into a shop in Harlow and bought a CD (Alchemy Live) and then went into another shop and asked for something to play it on!
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20-08-2007, 13:58
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I remember Michael Rodd (Or William Woolard or Raymond Baxter) off of Tomorrows World, smearing one with jam and dunking it in tea and it still worked.
But if I have the smallest smidge of dust on it the bloody things jump 
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20-08-2007, 20:48
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Today is the birthday of the first commercially available cd.
Who remembers laserdisks for that matter?
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20-08-2007, 20:52
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20-08-2007, 22:13
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BBx woz 'ere :P
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I still have some 5 1/4 floppies lying around somewhere.
I've actually got 3 1/2 sort of, optical disk - it held 128mb! It never took off Still I had more media storage than any of my friends at the time! But at that age I was programming BIOSes, modifying motherboards and doing all sorts of geeky stuff. God I was a geek - fortunately technology starting moving very quickly and I couldn't keep up... thank god I moved away from that world! 
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20-08-2007, 22:20
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Oh don't. I've still got some 8" floppies in the loft and up until not very long ago there was a winchester platter hanging from a nail somewhere in here.
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20-08-2007, 22:22
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BBx woz 'ere :P
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Cool!
 I still have my zx81 somewhere (With the 128k memory add on!!!!) with some tapes and some of my programs!
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Screaming Orgasm
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Ooh yes. Winchester. I have a 20MB hard disk here. Not for long though - will be in the next consignment for the council.
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20-08-2007, 23:56
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ROFL. I Pwnz joo all!
 Fear the awesome power of Dos 3 running the original sage. I can tell you now, that keyboard weighs a ton and currently supports a corner of the house its that solidly built.  Still works and it has a 20mb Winchester hard card which you have to park every time you finish using it. Ahhhh, the memories.... I fully expect someone to have a RM nimbus.....
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