[Mercuttio]

Hah, indestructable my foot. Did they have microwaves back then?

Sidenote: Who was the first person to microwave a CD? Did he get an award for being so freaking awesome?

 

[en480c4]

Quote:

Originally Posted by devwild Uuuuuh, what's a LASER? I've never heard of that.

[Dr. Evil]I have but one simple request, and that's to have SHARKS, with FRICKIN' LASER BEAMS, attached to their heads!!![/Dr. Evil]

 

[vibin247]

The twinkle on the Play button is a nice touch.

 

[LFF]

Love that ad. These vintage players are actually quite nice IMHO.

 

[Lisa]

And everyone who bought it put in their CDs up side down, the way they saw it in the ad. Unless of course they were looking for the CDs b-side.

 

[The Monkey]

How on earth are we supposed to fit our LPs in that thing? I predict no one will buy it.

 

[mrarroyo]

So who is going to be the first one to get it, oh and also write a review.

 

[DanT]

if archive.org wasn't slow as hell

http://www.archive.org/details/OpticalS1985

I only download the 34 MB took half an hours.

It's The computer chronicle talking about the new CD-rom technology

They even speculate that atari would come out with a cheap $600 cd-rom drive


which almost came true

http://www.atari-explorer.com/protos...s-cdar504.html

The problem is nobody has any idea what to do with 600MB of read only CD-rom. and The only thing is encyclopedia and indexes. which is why the smart ass free opinion commentator at the end predict the failiure of cd-rom

Check the state of hard drive in 1985
http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/winchest.html so 600MB storage is revolutionary but there is nobody developing any application for it.

 

[Beach123456]

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Monkey How on earth are we supposed to fit our LPs in that thing? I predict no one will buy it.

You have to fold it in half until it is in a circular shape.

















Best of luck.

 

[lini]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Otto This may be older. Magnavox FD 1000. 1984?

That's in fact a Philips CD 100 - first generation player of one of the inventors of the cd from 1982. As vintage as it gets in cd players, if you so will...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Otto I'll have to see how it sounds.

Quite nice, actually - provided it's still in good working order...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Otto Wonder if it's worth anything?

Yes, it is - but I'd rather recommend you to keep it, unless you'd only intend to abuse it. First generation players like these have already got rather rare...


Quote:

Originally Posted by Lisa And everyone who bought it put in their CDs up side down, the way they saw it in the ad. (...)

Oh, well, my good old Pioneer actually likes 'em that way.

Greetings from Hannover!

Manfred / lini

 

[zachary80]

5hz eh?
impressive

 

[Kirosia]

So uh . . . how do I get my mp3s on it?

 

[deez]

I bet some of you oldschoolers were very excited when you saw ads like this

If it was early 80s I was in single digits in age, so I wasn't so concerned with sound reproduction technologies. I did already love several types of music by that time and even owned my own audio equipment before I was 10 years old. By 12 I was competing in the UIL music recognition competition, which involved identifying something like 20 classical pieces based on listening to a short passage of each. The 3 CDs mentioned in this ad would've been helpful -- Too bad we didn't have the 600 bucks to blow on this thing when I was a wee tyke.

Seriously, I think it says something that Tchaikovsky, Handel and Vivaldi CDs were offered as a package deal with this player. These days it would've probably been some crappy pop or something. Even today 3 CDs for $10 more doesn't seem like a bad deal though. If they're well mastered i'll take it!

Digital audio is awesome!!

 

[fewtch]

Quote:

Originally Posted by deez I bet some of you oldschoolers were very excited when you saw ads like this

I was just graduating from high school myself, and really didn't have the funds at that point to be an early adopter of a new technology. In fact, I didn't own a CD player until some time in the 90s (possibly even mid 90s), I was into cassettes and vinyl.

P.S. I agree, digital audio is awesome. Although vinyl is good too, I have a belief that some people mistake the compression used on records (which raises the noise floor so quiet sounds are more audible) as better resolution, when in fact it's just the opposite. The noise floor of vinyl is typically around -50 to -60dB, and down around -90 dB with CDs. Admittedly this makes low-level signal easier to hear with vinyl records, but isn't objectively better. I'd pretty much always prefer to listen to classical on CD because of the much better dynamic range & lack of surface noise, but other formats can be better on vinyl.

 

[YamiTenshi]

Kinda makes you wonder what technology will be like in the next 20 years....