I saw this today on USA today website. I've been scanning 50 year old
slides to CD's and I still have my older PDP-11 data backed up as paper
listings and now on CD's. The NIST also has a paper on data longevity
and storage suggestions for CD's and DVD's.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-07-26-longevity_x.htm
Mike.