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Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be
- Subject: Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be
- From: alistair@cci.de (Alistair Priest)
- Date: 1995/09/27
- Distribution: world
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- Organization: Competence Center Informatik GmbH
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- Reply-to: alistair@cci.de
In article <ckt-2609951321530001@17.255.39.185>, ckt@guest.apple.com (Chris Thomas) writes:
> In article <43ogf7$7tr@guysmiley.blarg.net>, warrl@blarg.net wrote:
>
> > The Japanese learned... the *first* format they came out with for CD's
> > has the rather odd-sounding length of 70 minutes. This is how long it
> > *has* to be, to put Beethoven's 9th Symphony on one CD. That
> > particular symphony is extremely popular in Japan; if they had not
> > provided it, another company would have figured out a way to do so and
> > then would have blown the original makers out of the Japanese market.
>
> I was under the impression that Phillips, a Dutch company, came up
> with the CD, and that the length is actually 72 minutes. Erroneous?
Hmm. Perhaps I was told "folklore". I was under the impression that the CD
was invented by Sony, and was 72 mins, cos' the boss of Sony's favourite piece
of music was Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
Perhaps someone involved with this could shed some light??
Al