Yo,
on 19 Mar 98 20:22:18 +0100, Marco wrote:
>Even if the CD-ROM offers a surer storage then a HD or a floppy, it is not
>the ideal solution at all. CD-ROM are, in fact, quite sensitive to
>mechanical stress and in course of time (from 7 to 10 years) their
>informations are likely to become unreadable, partially at least.
>Whoever will be absolutely sure to be able to show his grandsons the shots
>of 20-30 years before, should give his photographic files for care by a
>Magneto-Optic storage.
That depends on the type of CDR media used. For the greenish ones you are
about right as the manufacturers predict a useful lifetime of about 10 years
for them. However, the golden and blue ones are supposed to last 100 years.
MtFbwy,
Volkhart
P.S.: My ISP's server crashed a few days ago, so it seems I lost quite a few
incoming emails on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Did I possibly miss anything
important here?
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Volkhart Baumgaertner email: kyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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