On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:58:35PM -0500, W S wrote: > At 05:12 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: > >...There have been library archive studies that have put a similar > >short life on CD's, and even less on DVDs - the laminate > >deteriorates. Obviously again, storage conditions make all the > >difference, just like photographs. > > It seems nothing survives the ravishes of time except continual vigilance.
The problem I see is not so much storage but technology. Say you store your CDs or DVDs (or tapes, flash cards, whatever) in a proper manner, what kind of device are you going to use in 20 years from now to read them? Take a print or a slide from 40 years ago (or more) and you don't need anything special to look at them... -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
