Kodak Gold CD-R's going bye-bye?

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Sun Jul 22 20:18:38 2001

> Have you checked americal.com, their web pages still have these listed
> so I assum ethey are available. use the product finder, type in "kodak
> digital audio gold' and you will find 2 items, a 30 pack for $49.99 and
> a 200 pack for $299.99

But those are CD-R's intended for Digital Audio, not Data. I know they
can be used for data, but I'd obviously prefer to have the data CD-R's
available too.

A couple of places still list Kodak Gold Ultima CD-R (data, not audio)
as being discontinued but still in stock, including www.cdroutlet.com.

It's a shame that such a fine storage media gets displaced by all the
el-cheapo-will-probably-deteriorate-in-a-decade-or-so cheap stuff
that's everywhere. It's as if folks don't believe that 650 MBytes of
data is worth a couple bucks anymore, just because they can store it
on 15 cent media for a couple years.

They've fallen victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of
which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly
less famous is this: "Never confuse the cost of the media with the value of
the data".

Tim.
Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 20:18:38 BST