In article <42fb1fc5$0$21681$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
Zilva Zanga <whoopie@my.place.invalid> wrote:
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Were the 'golden' discs created because that was the best technology at the 
time or someother reason? i.e. if the same project was launched today, would 
they still use a copper record, or cd, or high capacity hdd, or what? 

I believe the main reason was that they could be played back with simple
equipment, which could be described clearly with simple diagrams.


Gary

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Gary Heston  gheston@hiwaay.net 
The Intel ASCI Red supercomputer placed first in the 11/97 list of
the top 500 supercomputers in the world, at 1.338 TeraFLOPs max.
As of 6/05, it wouldn't make the list.