Re: First known digital music recording surfaces

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Posted by Wayne Parham [ 70.234.109.175 ] on June 24, 2008 at 15:45:47:

In Reply to: First known digital music recording surfaces posted by colinhester on June 24, 2008 at 08:43:18:


That's a cool link, Colin. Thanks!

When I was in high school in the late 1970's, I did a digital recording/playback science fair project. It was displayed at a local mall, in Woodland Hills. I had a homebrew 6502 computer and I used an early 8 bit ADC and a simple resistor ladder DAC. I sampled at a pretty low rate, around 5kHz as I recall, so I could only record voice and only for a few seconds. But it was still pretty cool and my table got a lot of traffic.

Later, after starting work for Data General, I remeber thinking I could record a whole album in high resolution on a DG Zebra 50Mb disk drive. Not very portable though, they were the size of washing machines.



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