My classiccmp non-retirement :-)

[Jerome H. Fine]

 >Tim Shoppa wrote:

>650MB CD-R's were supposedly supplanted by 700 MB CD-R's.  But I
>do not yet trust DVD's, and in my heart I have a distrust of the 700 MB
>CD-R's.
>
Jerome Fine replies:

I have used a DVD burner for about 3 years:

(a) To burn a monthly backup file - 4 * 1 GByte
per month or 3 DVDs per year.  Since each monthly
backup would have required 2 CDs, it was simply
not practical.  About once a year, I check the
old DVD-Rs to make sure I can still read them.

(b) For some reason I do NOT understand, when I
MOUNT  DU0:  CDROMi:/RONLY
under E11 using the DVD drive and a bootable CD
with RT-11 software, E11 can read the first
64 blocks on the CD (16 CD sectors) and actually
BOOT RT-11.

Once you find a use for DVDs that makes life a lot
easier, I suggest you will make them "trailing" edge
technology as well

Sincerely yours,

Jerome Fine
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