Korvet LP-001 1983
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The CD player "Corvette LP-001" was created in 1983 by the Leningrad Central Research Institute "Morphizpribor". By 1982, the VNIIRPA laser player development team had disintegrated. Some of the specialists went to work at the Leningrad Central Research Institute "Morphizpribor", where research continued. In the same year, Sony and Philips agreed on a laser audio recording standard and launched their many years of research into the market "” the first consumer CD players. Technical documentation with standard descriptions and equipment samples quickly ended up at Morphizpribor, and by 1983 a working prototype of the first Soviet PKD, Corvette LP 001, had been created. The device used chips and a laser head from Philips. In total, two such players were assembled - both were used as stands for testing domestic analogs of specialized microcontrollers and decoders created at the Central Research Institute. No photos have been found for this device yet.
Information from collection of Valery Khartchenko