{"id":898,"date":"2012-10-01T10:13:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2012-10-01T10:36:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:36:22","slug":"the-cd-player-turns-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/898\/the-cd-player-turns-30","title":{"rendered":"The CD Player Turns 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techhive.com\/article\/2010810\/the-cd-player-turns-30.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/techhive\/sony_cdp101_small.jpg\" alt=\"Sony CDP-101, The First Commercial CD Player\" class=\"centered shadow\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thirty years ago today, Sony released the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techhive.com\/article\/2010810\/the-cd-player-turns-30.html\" target=\"_blank\">first commercially available Compact Disc player<\/a>, the CDP-101.  It launched alongside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.80s.ne.jp\/chrono\/1982\/cd50.html\" target=\"_blank\">50 CDs<\/a> in Japan, marking the commercial birth of the widely popular digital audio medium.<\/p>\n<p>Over at TechHive (a new site run by the folks behind PC World), I&#8217;ve written an in-depth piece that details the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techhive.com\/article\/2010810\/the-cd-player-turns-30.html\" target=\"_blank\">history and impact of the CD<\/a> as a medium for both audio and computer data.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago today, Sony released the first commercially available Compact Disc player, the CDP-101. It launched alongside 50 CDs in Japan, marking the commercial birth of the widely popular digital audio medium. Over at TechHive (a new site run by the folks behind PC World), I&#8217;ve written an in-depth piece that details the history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,10],"tags":[65,83,225,226,224,88,223],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-computers","tag-65","tag-anniversaries","tag-cd-players","tag-cdp-101","tag-compact-disc","tag-freelance-work","tag-techhive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}