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The CD at 40 Project

Another way to make CDs.

Hundreds of compact discs are shown here, stacked on about twenty wooden dowels, and labeled with a post-it note indicating the date the disc was created. These discs were used in the context of a duplication business, and the distinctive blue color of recordable compact discs (CD-Rs), and serve a comparable role to the master discs used in replication settings. Image by CD at 40.

Not everyone who manufactures CDs invests in a full-scale factory. Hear about an alternative way of producing discs that you can do from your shed:

The CD at 40 Project

The CD at 40 Project

The CD at 40 project is a research impact project funded by Durham University and led by Dr Eamonn Bell (Department of Computer Science). It investigates the history of compact disc manufacture and use in the UK, since the invention of the format in the early 1980s.

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