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As usual, Synthgear does the extra legwork to find interesting extra details. Building on that record groove post, the picture above shows the pits on the surface of a CD. More on the synthgear post at the via link below.
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A record groove magnified 1000 times. But before you go getting all sappy about the days when things were objects and stuff was things, remember that hard drives are things too. If you haven’t read it already, I hereby recommend Matthew Kirschenbaum’s Mechanisms.
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