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John Williamson wrote:
One reason for making it the size it is could have been that they may
have looked forwards (As engineers often do) and foreseen that the CD
drive could replace the 5 1/4" floppy drive in a standard computer case.
People also found it a comfortable size to hold and view the "label",
and that holds true for Blu Ray even now.

That assumes they realised it would be possible to home record a CD. I
don't think this was thought possible when the system was devised. As I
said, it was a replacement for LPs.

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