6 Feb
2007
6 Feb
'07
4:35 p.m.
On 6 Feb 2007 at 15:36, Billy Pettit wrote:
> Everybody else seems to have lots of horror
stories about media.
I don't.
I want to again state that I have seen CD's burned
in the 1976-77 time
period that can still be read. And I've seen DVDs from the early 90's that
can also still be read. Reliably.
Here's a 2004 study on the subject done by NIST:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/gipwog/StabilityStudy.pdf
Beyond this, so much out there falls in the area of sold-silver
speaker wire and gold-plated mains receptacles (you know what I
mean).
FWIW, there were some early CDs that used a silver instead of an
aluminum reflective layer. The mortality on these was supposedly
significant.
Cheers,
Chuck