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From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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At 6:20 PM -0600 on 2001/12/09, Mike Meyer wrote:

>  The two constraints I heard are that 1) the player had to fit in the
>  cassette/radio space in an automobile console, which provides a
>  maximum for the outside diameter,

	That's not the way I heard the story regarding the outside diameter.

>                                    and 2) it had to hold a specific
>  Beethoven symphony (the fifth?), which provides a maximum for the
>  inner diameter.

	I believe that this story is largely correct, although it was the 
outside diameter that was set as a result of the particular song and 
not the internal diameter.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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