Buy a CD player, be an early adopter, too bad there’s no CDs

posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 6 October, 2009 to the technology subset

Big, clunky, expensive, and very little to listen to… being a musical early adopter can’t have been much fun when the first compact disc (CD) players first hit the market in October 1982:

The CDP-101 did not come cheap nor did it come svelte. Early adopters had to part ways with the equivalent of $2,200 in today’s ducats for a single 14 x 5 x 12½-inch unit. Worse yet, the CD player’s media library was pathetic. At launch a mere 113 albums were available for purchase.

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