On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Chad Fernandez wrote: It's both yummy nad pretty as an ice cream topping. Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

The "coating" should only actually be a metal film, AFAIK. => -----Original Message----- => From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Chad Fernandez => Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:36 AM => To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => Subject: Ever create more work than it was worth? => => => I was bending a cd-r because for some reason I wanted too. I had the => tips almost touching each other when it broke. I now have created => something I have to vacuum :-( It was kind of cool seeing all the => coating flake off :-) I didn't know it would do that :-) => => The coating isn't dangerous like that is it? => => Chad Fernandez => Michigan, USA =>

Rumor has it that Chad Fernandez may have mentioned these words: I've known for years that they can do that - especially the early ones. My ex-boss (who was a frelling idiot) told me "there was nothing I could do to a CD-ROM that would cause a drive not to read it." (this was back when 4x was king, and CD's were made one helluvalot tougher... ROM drives could read thru a lot more scratches back then) I took the disk in 1 hand, flexed it until the tips touched, pushed just a little harder, and ***Pow***! The thing sounded like a firecracker, and literally *shattered* like glass. My response: "I *really* wanna see you get the data off of that disk now." -- I still to this day don't know if he actually *needed* the data from the disk... ;^> but he probably did, as he turned 72 shades of purple... ;^> Well, I wouldn't eat it if I were you... ;-P IIRC, the "gold" disks which are actually gold probably wouldn't hurt you, but the "silver" disks contain aluminum (I think) which would be poisonous to plants, and I think some of the dyes used in the green/blue disks might contain unhealthy components. I have *no* clue what CD-RW disks use - other than it's a really, *really* cool shade of gun-metal gray... (gray is my favo[u]rite color.) Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.