The Constitution requires that Members of the House be at least 25 years old, have been a U.S. citizen for at least seven years, and live in the state they represent (though not necessarily the same district).
1981: First test CD created in Hannover, Germany by the Polydor Pressing Operations plant. 1982: Manufacturing of CDs began on a large scale in a factory. 1982: First ever album on a CD released by Sony, which was Billy Joel's 52nd Street. 1983: CD players and discs hit the market in the US and the rest of the world. 1984: Advanced technology to store and retrieve data from CD-ROM introduced. 1985: CD-ROM drives introduced in the US and world markets.
The disc diameter was changed from 115 to 120 mm to allow for 74 minutes of playback with the sampling rate and quality chosen. The compact disc first surfaced in the public eye 15 years after its invention when Philips made an announcement on May 17, 1978. The new standard was proposed by Philips and Sony in 1980 as âRed Bookâ, which was a set of color-bound books containing the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.