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ronsor | on: IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display (2019)
In the end, all reasons resolve to either "it's what we had at the time" or "someone thought it looked good."
theamk | parent
Not always, for example original CD disks had capacity of 74 minutes to accommodate Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
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