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Free Beer & Hot Wings: Check Out This 1982 Ad for Sony’s First CD Player [Video]
The year 1982 was a huge one for technology and music.
Sony released this crazy new technology that would take music from analog to digital. This was the year the company released its first commercially available CD player.
The Sony CDP-101 compact disc player debuted Oct. 1, 1982, in Japan. It cost about $730.
Man, this thing was the future! Lasers! Indestructible! Amazing!
Source: Free Beer & Hot Wings
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