Soviet CD Players Used Glass Discs Helium Neon Lasers and Static Sensitive Buttons

Soviet engineers faced a constant uphill battle keeping pace with the rapid development of consumer electronics, working without access to foreign components or technical blueprints. Nowhere was that more apparent than in their approach to compact disc technology. Work on the Luch-001 prototype player wrapped up in 1979, but the result was a genuinely strange [...]

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Soviet CD Players Used Glass Discs Helium Neon Lasers and Static Sensitive Buttons

Soviet engineers faced a constant uphill battle keeping pace with the rapid development of consumer electronics, working without access to foreign components or technical blueprints. Nowhere was that more apparent than in their approach to compact disc technology. Work on the Luch-001 prototype player wrapped up in 1979, but the result was a genuinely strange [...]

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