MIKE ROSS wrote in a message to Greg Mayman:

 MR> "Greg Mayman" wrote to "Roy J. Tellason" (27
Dec 02  08:10:00)  ---
 MR> on the topic of "MESSAGE EDITING"

 GM> Yup. The old analog wobbly groove can always be worked out by
 GM> future generations -- hell, if civilization collapses, and
 GM> someone digs up the disk in 10,000 years, and assuming it hasn't
 GM> corroded away, there's a good chance they'd be able to work out a
 GM> way to play it!

 MR> Last improvement I remember for the turntable was an entirely
 MR> optical pickup using a laser. No needle to scratch the delicate
 MR> grooves. Here's the announcement from 1995. Don't know if the url
 MR> is still good: 

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I remember hearing about systems like that before,  and I'd be real
surprised if 1995 were the first such thing to come out,  though I don't
think that any system like that really had much commercial success.  The
technology is probably there to make it easy compared to what it used to
be,  what with all the cdrom drives and such,  but the demand probably
isn't there,  since no record companies are selling vinyl any more.

Did they mention a price?

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