[BC] Digital Archiving

[Mark Earle]

RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:
> Write-once DVDs are not supposed to degrade at normal room
> temperatures. It's the R/W ones that slowly degrade with time.
>
> You want to keep them in sleeves of cases so that they are not
> exposed to direct light for extended periods of time.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Richard B. Johnson
> Read about my book
> http://www.LymanSchool.org
>
>   
I have a CD created in 1995, on a then-new 1x writer drive (HP) which 
cost $450! This was under Windows 95, and having the drive was a rarity. 
This was the first CD I ever created.

It has lived in my computer bag, not exposed to sun but otherwise has 
endured being in hot cars, airplanes, etc.

It still reads. I have yet to get an error popping this in and reading 
random files from the CD. It's mostly old Word docs and some PDFs.

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