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| Title: | Welcome to the CD Notes Conference |
| Notice: | Welcome to COOKIE |
| Moderator: | COOKIE::ROLLOW |
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| Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Mar 03 1989 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1517 |
| Total number of notes: | 13349 |
241.0. "Amazing CD error correction!" by SPEEDY::CLARK () Wed Jan 01 1986 19:22
Newsgroups: net.audio
Posted: 11 Dec 85 00:10:32 GMT
Organization: Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria
You may be interested to hear this little story: I was demonstrating
the durability of CDs to a friend of mine, and, as I usually do to get the
best reaction, I sailed the CD across the room. Well, this time it broke!
It hit the wall (oops) and cracked from the edge to the center -- completely
broken. Just for fun, I aligned the edges by hand and put it in my D-5.
It played just fine!
Alexander G. Burchell
UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,hplabs,ihnp4,zehntel}!tektronix!reed!agb
MAIL: Box 172, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Dr., Portland OR 97202
(I thought that I posted this some time back, but can't find it now.
If it's a duplicate, let me know and I'll delete it. -- Ward)
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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 241.1 | | EDEN::ROTH | | Fri Jan 03 1986 08:01 | 4 |
| What's amazing is that the tracks ligned up - the pitch is only 1.6
micrometers!
- Jim
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| 241.2 | | AKOV75::BOYAJIAN | | Mon Jan 06 1986 03:42 | 6 |
| Of course, the "secret" is that the crack was radial. .1 is right that it's
amazing that the edges lined up well enough (and that the crack was narrow
enough) to disrupt only a couple of bits per track, which the error correction
could handle.
--- jerry
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