Norio Ohga

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http://www.news.com.au/technology/father-of-the-cd-former-sony-president-norio-ohga-dies/story-e6frfro0-1226044021487

The flamboyant music connoisseur steered his work through his love of music. A former opera singer, Mr Ohga insisted the CD be designed at 12 centimetres in diameter - or 75 minutes of music - to store Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in its entirety.

Sony sold the world's first CD in 1982 and they overtook LP record sales in Japan five years later. The specifications are still used today and have fostered the devices developed since

RIP Norio ... a great innovator.
 
... er they didn't.

I remember buying Korak Gold CD-R's and they were $70 for 10 in jewelled cases.

My burner was a 2X Ricoh SCSI ... then I got a 2X Ocean EIDE burner.

Disks were expensive for the first 18 mths or so.

Back then you would try to squeeze as much as possible onto a CD when you burned one ... I remember putting all of my game patches and driver updates we downloaded from the net onto CDR ... as downloaded them again seriously cut into our quota.

Putting the family pictures and video onto CD's was a priority back then too.



 
LOL. When I was still in college the portable hand held electronic calculator was invented. Not long after the scientific calculator. While I was in college my wife was a professor at Washington University's Medical Dental school. I rememebr she did all her work on an IBM typewriter at the school. Of course when I was in high school we had adding machines and manual typewriters. Not long after the electric trypwriter came on board. As a kid I watched black and white tv then Disney and Bonanza came out in living color. My family didn't get a color TV until I near high school age in the late 60's. I rememebr going to the roller skating rink back in like '66ish and playing the pin ball machines. Pac Mac came out sometime later. Of course drive through McDonalds were not invented when I was growing up. Curb servcie with a tray placed on olled down window of the car. I remember McDonalds when there was like 175 served. I'm really old.
 
Yeah I also remember when you pulled up for fuel in the car and they cleaned your windows et. al ... mind you ... you had to fill the tank ... for a couple of bucks.

Back then there were a lot less people on welfare ...

There's an idea ...
 
I can remember ArpaNET and then AarNET ... I surfed (crawled) the university systems back in the early 80's.

Back then you made a coffe while logging on ... hell it was easier just going into the campus ...

Abstracts (let alone whole journals) were not even online ... it was years later we got on-line databases up and running and filled with articles.

God it was awful going to the library to find an abstract of something you might want 18 volumes in ... just to find it was useless ... and move on.

At least a 3 apple afternoon ... maybe 4.

Today it is a researchers dream ... information is everywhere at your fingertips.

Back in the 70's when I was a kid we had books ... my dad had the Encyclopedia Brittanica and Websters etc ... add popular mechanics etc ... paper.

 
Hmm, didn't Ohga also invent the submarmine dive klaxon?? Seems to me all those sub movies would have the klaxon shout "Ah-OO-Ga! Ah-OO-Ga!" before the OoD would yell "Dive! DIVE!! DIVE, DAMMIT!!" 😛
 


From Wiki:

The heating effect of microwaves was discovered accidentally in 1945. Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine, was building magnetrons for radar sets with the American company Raytheon. He was working on an active radar set when he noticed that a peanut chocolate bar he had in his pocket started to melt. The radar had melted his chocolate bar with microwaves. The first food to be deliberately cooked with Spencer's microwave was popcorn, and the second was an egg, which exploded in the face of one of the experimenters.[1][2] To verify his finding, Spencer created a high density electromagnetic field by feeding microwave power into a metal box from which it had no way to escape. When food was placed in the box with the microwave energy, the temperature of the food rose rapidly.
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However, Wiki also sez:

The first personal microwave was introduced in 1967 by the Amana Corporation. The first microwave for home use was introduced by Tappan in 1955.
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IIRC my mom had one of those early "radar range" Amanas - worked for something like 25 years before giving up the ghost..
 
Well, we didn't get a microwave until sometimes in tne 70's. I grew up in a three room house in the midwest without heat. My mom turned on the oven and opened the door to heat the house. I sure I was out of high school before my parents got a microwave in the house. Early 70ish. Both of my parents grew up in rural America without electricity. To give you and idea of my childhood, when I got to Jr. high the showers provided at gym class was the first time I ever used one. 1967. We had a tub. I have used an outhouse many times.
 
Yeah, seems like the microwave oven became a common household appliance in the 80's. It may well have the 80's before my parents had one. I think a microwave cookbook is needed. Texas style microwave chili would be my suggestion.
 
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