Introducing The Amazing Compact Disc

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Memories - Introducing The Amazing Compact Disc | 1982 | Retro vintage 80s technology



When the first compact discs arrived on the Australian market in 1983, they ranged in price from $900-$1800. The price didn’t hold back the rapid adoption of the technology.

She's got so much classy swag.  She knew about the future, she described an MP3 player in 1982.


ABBA, "The Visitors", Aug 17 1982 was the first PRODUCED on CD.

The first commercial music compact disc (CD) pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA, pressed at the opening of CBS Records CD production plant in Terre Haute, Indiana in September 1984.
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WORLDWIDE, FIRST DEMO CD"

BeeGees, Living Eyes, 1981

Living Eyes was chosen to be the first ever album to be manufactured on CD for demonstration purposes, as seen on the BBC TV program Tomorrow's World in 1981, and was featured on the inaugural issue of the Compact Disc trade magazine. It was the first Bee Gees album to be released on CD, in early 1983 when compact discs were first commercially available, though few were manufactured.