My classiccmp non-retirement :-)

[Antonio Carlini]

>Kodak used to make Gold CD-R's too, but they got out of that 
>business several years ago.  I managed to buy a few 
>palletfulls in their fire sale.

What is the manufacturer's projected pre-burn shelf-life
of a CD-R blank? 

I don't expect to need CD-Rs for future archival purposes
(since I expect I'll be using DVD-R or whatever comes next),
but I might want to burn a CD-R for some machine or other
that does not understand anything more recent.

So when I see CD-R blanks going the way of the dodo in a few
years time, and I decide to do an end-of-life buy, just how
long can I expect those blanks to survive on the shelf?

Antonio