Compact Disc celebrates 25th anniversary

Associated Press ^ | 08/16/2007 | Toby Sterling

[dave k]

Vogue was a record label that put out records with photos ‘embedded’ under the vinyl. They were only made for a period of a few years back in the 1940’s...

http://www.voguepicturerecords.org/index.html

[TChris]

I remember listening to my first CD. It was Slade, and I heard it on a player in Radio Shack.

The CD was a total paradigm shift away from the vinyl LP and magnetic cassette tape. Truly a revolutionary technology.

[Species8472]

My teenaged son was helping me clean out the garage a couple of weeks ago when we came across my old IBM selectric typewriter.....

"WOW! what a cool printer dad!"
"It has a keyboard built right into it!"
"Where does the cable plug in?"

LOLOL!

[bmwcyle]

[cynwoody]

If it had been an IBM 2741 in your garage, you'd have had a better answer to your son's question.

The 2741 was a Selectric typewriter set up as a remote terminal. It ran at about 14 characters per second. It printed on fan-folded pin-fed paper — there would have been a box of it behind the terminal in the photo. It was commonly used to access the time sharing systems of the day, such as CP/67, TSS, TSO, or Multics. It was popular with users of the interactive APL programming language. APL used a lot of special characters, which could be supported by simply changing the type ball.