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Music,thatwelistentoeitherfromastereosystem,kitchen
orcarradio,isjustactuallyananalogsignal.
Inthepastonecouldbuyrecords,musiccassettesandta-
peswitharecordedanalogsignal.Whilerecordswereusu-
allydamagedfromdustandfrequentuse,tapesdemagne-
tizedthemselvesleadingtoadullandmuffledsound.
Lateron,theCompactDisc(CD)wasdevelopedforstoring
musicindigitalform.Ananalogsignalismeasuredatspecific
intervals,transferredinnumericalvalueandstoredinaspe-
cificformontheCD.ACDplayer(oramplifier)evaluatesthe
computedvalueonceagainintoananalogsignal.Anaudio
CDcanholdapproximately70–80minutesofmusic.Itsfor-
matissimilartothatofanormalcomputerCD-ROM,which
hasanequivalentdatavolumeofapprox.650–700MB.
The early stages of computer technology development,
where1MBusermemory,100MBharddrivesanda28kBit
modem,astandardthingwere,usuallyalsobroughtalot
ofproblemsalongwithit.
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