Louise, The information which you received is similar to that which Carl Kunath described a year or more ago when various cavers were discussing on line the best method for preserving photographs and data for long periods of time without them disintegrating. This seemed to be the one that Carl discussed.
Fritz _____ From: Louise Power [mailto:power_lou...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 3:06 PM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: [Texascavers] Archival Quality CDs I have been working on my family history since about 1991. Recently, the following information appeared in a genealogical newsletter I subscribe to: I recently read an article in "Popular Mechanics" about the problems with archiving data and just wanted to pass this on. My experience with CDs has not been good. I have had a CD-RW fail in two months time and CD-Rs in less than two years. This article refers to "archive quality" CD-Rs that are produced by Kodak and Memorex. They are unique in that they both use 24k gold rather than dyes as the main component. Supposedly they are to be "viable" for 300 years. They are expensive at $15.00 for a five pack, but worth every penny if they truly last. I looked up these archival gold CDs on the web and you can actually get them for less than the price mentioned in this note. Has anybody used these for archiving their slides, etc? They seem like a good idea for family histories, slides and anything you want to keep around virtually (no pun intended, well maybe...) forever. Not that any of us are going to be here in 300 years to put in a claim on the guarantee if they don't last. Louise --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
