MAM-A surely did mean something - Mitsui Advanced Media America, not to be
confused with MAM-E, a sister company in Europe. Both now owned by an
Italian company, with the first M now meaning "Manufacturing".
The European side has on-line sales via
http://www.mam-e.com/web/onlineshop.php while "over theer" the place to be
is http://store.mam-a-store.com/index.html
Oh, and their Gold DVD is not available until 29 July 2005 - USD149.95 for
50, not available in Europe.
http://store.mam-a-store.com/standard---archive-gold.html
But I too have gone the outboard hard disk route.
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Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of bs.pearce@xxxxxxx
Sent: 26 July 2005 14:04
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: (Fwd) [photoconservation] Archival Gold DVD-R (?)
> Another manufacture of gold reflective layer DVDs, and using the
> Mitsui dye material, is MAM-A
<http://store.mam-a-store.com/mam43437.html>.
Here's how it was explained to me.
There were originally two manufacturers of archival CD's, Mitsui and Kokak.
I don't know where the Kodaks were made, but the Mitsui plant was in
Colorado Springs. Quite a few years ago, Kodak got out of the archival CD
business, showing their bad business decisions are not confiined to silver
photography. Then, several years later, The parent of the plant in Colorado
Springs (Mitsui or its owner) decided to exit the CD business entirely, and
sold the plant. The new owners, Italian, gave it the name MAM-A, which
surely must stand for something other than what you call your mother.
I suspect that making an archival DVD is a tough one, or there would have
been a MAM-A gold DVD a long time ago. Perhaps there is no equivelent dye
for the wave length laser used.
After some study, I've gone to an outboard hard disc for backup storage.
Bill Pearce
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