My classiccmp non-retirement :-)

[Fred N. van Kempen]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Antonio Carlini wrote:

> You cannot rely on a CD (not even a pressed CD) for
> anything important. You need at least two CDs, preferably
> more. By the time you realise you were unlucky enough
> to hit the bad one in the batch, it is too late.
Correct.  I still do backups of all data (and images of media)
onto DLT tapes, two copies per "volume", in separate locations.

> The ISO ormat is well documented. If you ignore various
> copy-protections schemes, the for straight-forward normal
> CDs, I would be surprised if you cannot access one 100
> years from now. You almost certainly won't be able to burn
> a new CD-R (since noone wil be making the media) but you
> will be able to access an ISO file. If you use something
Correct, many ISO-level image browsers exist.

> like Nero with its (I assume ...) undocumented .NRG format,
> you'll have to spin up an emulator and a copy of WXP with
> Nero. Convert to ISO before then and you should be OK.
.. and most of those browsers understand .nrgs as well.

--f