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  • Re: RE: Re: Would broadcast videotape recorded in 1966 still be playabl

    From NY@21:1/5 to Bill Posters on Fri Jan 5 17:06:58 2024
    On 05/01/2024 17:01, Bill Posters wrote:
    The length of early CD's appears to be dictated by the longest U-Matic available, which was 74 minutes and made by BASF


    I thought that apocryphally it was based on a requirement by someone who influenced the spec, that the whole of a certain orchestral symphony had
    to fit on one disc.

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