Maybe you should enlighten those know-nothings at IBM-Germany and PM. They will probably appreciate being set straight...
-----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marc Sims Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 14:04 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WINHOME] Archival Media Longevity Oreilly Network gathered a paper from NIST (National Institue Standards and Technology) a very good source on detailed research on the longevity of Optical media in a very detailed paper (pdf) explaining the corelation between heat, humidity fluxuations to error and data loss over many types of optical media. Findings of the research can be viewed here with Adobe acrobat plug-in and or downloaded at http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/gipwg/StabilityStudy.pdf I don't know how PM got its data from this supposed German "expert" if he claims to be such and how its research was conducted ( And I can assume it was not very scientific at that for sure) to come up with the proposterous conclusion that CD-R's or any other variant thereof have such a short life span of 5 years for unsed optical media!!??... -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
