My classiccmp non-retirement :-)

[Zane H. Healy]

>  > How long should a CD be replied upon?
>
>Pressed, or CD-R?  A pressed CD will likely be readable as long as the
>drive still works, would be my guess - especially if the CD is kept in
>the dark and in an inert atmosphere.  A CD-R is quite a different
>story; I wouldn't count on them nearly as long.
>
>How long, that's another question.  A decade, maybe?

It really depends on the brand/type of CD-R blanks being used.  I try 
to only use Verbatim DataLifePlus blanks, unfortunately it's getting 
*very* difficult to find them.  I'm sure there are other good blanks 
out there, but I've had very good luck with these, so far.

			Zane


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