Pirate CD - nostalgia post Bashny.Net

The CD was invented in 1979, the first wheels began to appear in overseas stores in 1982. By the way, Wikipedia has an amazing version of the diameter CD (120 mm) has been chosen so that it was placed on the 74-minute Ninth Symphony of Beethoven.

We first began to appear in CD sales in the 1990-1991 year. The original "brand" drives while almost no one saw. The discs were pirated. Cheapest (they were sold on the radio at 6 rubles) - "bald" wheels.
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02. Bald wheels called because they were not rolling, and any content notation. According to rumors they illegally produced at the Moscow plant "Gramzapis." Quality bald drives when buying defined simply: it was necessary to drive through to see the sun. The less transparent 'holes' in the surface, the better the disk. Despite the holes and underground production, discs played fine.

Some sellers have traded for 8 rubles "elite" bald drives knurled silkscreen.



03. Sometimes the drives were not bald, but with a completely "left" knurled.

You'll never guess what is written on the right disk. Tchaikovsky? Nope, Dire Strates. :)



04. In addition to the bald, sales were Chinese and Bulgarian wheels. Chinese for some reason could not be copied obozhki and rolling, so painted them yourself. How could.



05. The most expensive were krutumi and Bulgarian wheels. Printing and knurled copied from the original disks (usually with a rather poor quality). Often on one disc stuffed two albums.

Although handicrafts, these discs play so far, and have passed twenty years. & Quot;

From the discussion at the author's blog:

UPD1. "Despite the cottage industry ...»
So it is stamped CD-ROM, rather than writing CD-R!
Of course they will live in the same simple metal foils that with pits and land.

UPD2. Bulgaria has never had a plant for the production of discs, or rolling. "Bulgarian" wheels - it's Chinese, "bald", recorded and rolled Ukrainian underground workers. This legend was invented by them because no "Ukrainian" or "Chinese" wheels nobody would have bought at that price.

UPD3. Yes, there were times, so it was interesting to take a walk in the park at Gorbushka ... And right now? rutrekere went on, a couple of clicks and a few minutes the entire discography on hard - no romance.

I completely agree. Nope romanticism ... A Gorbushka park deserves a separate post.



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