24 Jul
2001
24 Jul
'01
10:46 a.m.
At 06:12 PM 7/24/01 -0400, CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote:
And a test I use - a carbon-arc-lamp nicknamed
"buttercup". (If there
are any ex-Dabney-House readers here, they'll get the reference.) I can
only run it intermittently, but all cyanine-based CD-R's become unreadable
after a few hours of 10% exposure to it. (I think a few hours is somewhere
around a decade of solar UV exposure.)
I admire your thoroughness, but I think putting my media in
a cool, dark place will reduce its exposure to UV and temperature
extremes. Perhaps I'll need to worry about degeneration of
the chemicals inside the CD, or something else we're not guessing
about today. Meanwhile, I'll cross my fingers and assume I'll have
other media choices in the next 5-10 years that'll encourage me
to re-copy my CD-Rs, which have patiently waited in their
fire-proof case.
- John