On 11/6/2012 9:12 AM, Tom Fine wrote:
> Hi Carl:
>
> See my ARSCJ article:
> http://www.aes.org/aeshc/pdf/fine_dawn-of-digital.pdf
>
> Aside from Denon, no one was making commercial digital recordings before
> Telarc. Denon was first, Soundstream was second, 3M/BBC was third, Sony
> was 4th (and it was the pro-sumer PCM F-1 system at first, followed
> quickly by the 1600 system).

There was also a Sony PCM-1 system, but where that fit in the sequence 
with the PCM-F1, I don't know.

Peace,
Paul