I would imagine that most of our "stuff" will be sold at an estate sale or be thrown away or be donated to the TSS within the next 50 to 70 years anyway. So what difference does it make whether the CD lasts 200 years or 300 years. Besides; I am certain that eventually some future cave archaeologist will do a graduate thesis on the first 300 years of Texas Caving and will develop a revolutionary way to restore old deteriorating CDs. And then he will publish the collected cavetex works of David Locklear and win the noble prize for the arcane archaeology of LED flashlight technology. Or something like that anyway.
keith heuss <[email protected]> wrote:All, Some years back when CDs were first coming out, I did a test to compare various types and I found the gold CDs would last longest when exposed to direct sunlight on my roof. They were also exposed to rain and other elements of weather. Recently I was having some film developed at Holland photo and I noticed that they were offering gold CDs which were guaranteed for 300 years data storage. If I remenber they were about $36 for a 25 pack. Not too expensive for occasional use for archive purposes. I hope to try some some day. --Keith __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
