Word: discs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Star-gazing students were welcomed into Science Center B last Wednesday to the strains of Gustav Holst's "The Planets." Okay, a pretty conservative choice as these things go. The sound came out of a compact disc player recently purchased by the Science Center. But then things got really weird...
...shoppers alike were able to leave a lecture hall to the music of David Bowie. If listening to his "Space Oddity" was itself a Harvard oddity, hearing Pink Floyd the Friday afterwards was even more unexpected. "Gotta have some Floyd," Latham was heard saying as he inserted the compact disc...
Idiosyncracies aside, Tweeter sells nearly 25 compact disc players a week. Compact discs now account for 40 to 45 percent of music sales at the Coop, and the store is continually expanding the cd department...
...Compact disc sales have seriously cut into the record market, although many record listeners still remain faithful to their black vinyl...
...developments may also drastically change the cassette market. Manufacturers may soon introduce a digital cassette tape which would utilize technology similar to a compact disc. Introduction of the new tapes--which fit inside a different size tape player, of course--would further complicate students' choices of music players...