Here's an odd question for you. In the past couple of months, I've picked up two shrinkwrapped boxes of ten DS, DD 5.25" disks. (Does anyone know if you can still buy these new (not NOS) anywhere?) I figure these are just going to get harder to find, so I better stock up now.
Anyway, here's my question. I know disks with data written to them will eventually develop errors simply from age. Is there any reason unused, sealed disks would become unusable? I mean, after a few thousand years, they might loose their magnetic charge, but what about, say, the next 100 years? And I just know there's someone (Jim?) on this list that's got a few hundred blank 5.25" DD disks saved up for preservation efforts, right? -- Lee K. Seitz * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/ Wanted: Vintage Pac-M*n necktie (The asterisk is to keep from mucking up people's Usenet search results. Replace it with an "a", if you didn't know.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
