Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 03:30:20 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Message-ID: <a0510100eb83f13e04f08@[10.0.1.22]> In-Reply-To: <20011209144217.A49268@darkstar.gte.net> References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a0 <15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org> <006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a05101004b8373f5230e8@[10.0.1.16]> <00d901c17fa0$9d81f800$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a0510100bb8375314d283@[10.0.1.16]> <20011209144217.A49268@darkstar.gte.net>
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At 2:42 PM -0800 on 2001/12/09, Robert Clark wrote: > The hole in the middle of a CD was sized to match > a coin local to where the CD standard was set? Correctamundo. Philips and Sony were the two companies in question, and Philips chose the inside diameter to match the exact same size of the Dutch dime -- at 18mm, one of the smallest size coins currently in circulation in the world (if not the smallest). Now, does anyone know why the outside diameter was chosen to be the size it was? -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> H4sICIFgXzsCA2RtYS1zaWcAPVHLbsMwDDvXX0H0kkvbfxiwVw8FCmzAzqqj1F4dy7CdBfn7 Kc6wmyGRFEnvvxiWQoCvqI7RSWTcfGXQNqCUAnfIU+AT8OZ/GCNjRVlH0bKpguJkxiITZqes MxwpSucyDJzXxQEUe/ihgXqJXUXwD9ajB6NHonLmNrUSK9nacHQnH097szO74xFXqtlbT3il wMsBz5cnfCR5cEmci0Rj9u/jqBbPeES1I4PeFBXPUIT1XDSOuutFXylzrQvGyboWstCoQZyP dxX4dLx0eauFe1x9puhoi0Ao1omEJo+BZ6XLVNaVpWiKekxN0VK2VMpmAy+Bk7ZV4SO+p1L/ uErNRS/qH2iFU+iNOtbcmVt9N16lfF7tLv9FXNj8AiyNcOi1AQAA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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