> On Jul 28, 2017, at 9:19 AM, Sam O'nella via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I dont think I've heard if the history of the technology behind cds. Was it
> SRI? I only thought the first cdrom software at least was that encyclopedia
> on CD?
> This being 14" just sounds like a disk platter.
It's obviously not a CD. It might be just a brown disk with scratches, being
sold as something unusual to the gullible. Or it might be an optical disk of
some sort, but not all optical disks are CDs.
I don't know if DEC was the first to publish software on CDROM; it certainly
was fairly early. I remember hearing that DEC was building a CD factory to be
able to do so -- that apparently was before you could find people to do it for
you. I forgot the date; not long after audio CDs appeared. The VMS License
Manager was invented to deal with software on CDs, I think.
paul
