Thor-CD was a re-recordable CD format proposed in 1988 by
Tandy Tandy may refer to:
Companies
* Tandy Corporation, a leather supply company which became the RadioShack Corporation in 2000
** Tandy Computers
*** Tandy Color Computer, released in 1980
*** Tandy 2000, a computer released in 1983
*** Tandy 1000, a ...
.
Several years before
recordable compact discs were introduced,
Tandy Corporation
Tandy Corporation was an American family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Tandy Leather was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store. By the end of the 1950s, under the tutelage of then-CEO Charles Tandy, ...
announced a similar CD format named Thor-CD, but after being pushed back for several years, it was finally cancelled due to steep manufacturing costs.
At the time Tandy proposed the new format, CDs were mostly used for digital music, but not for other digital data. Tandy aimed to change this with its new format.
However, the introduction of the
CD-ROM format, which was incompatible with Tandy's proposal, all but killed Tandy's product.
See also
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Vaporware
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References
Optical disc authoring
Vaporware
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