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

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Tue Jul 24 17:46:42 2001

At 06:12 PM 7/24/01 -0400, CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com wrote:
>And a test I use - a carbon-arc-lamp nicknamed "buttercup". (If there
>are any ex-Dabney-House readers here, they'll get the reference.) I can
>only run it intermittently, but all cyanine-based CD-R's become unreadable
>after a few hours of 10% exposure to it. (I think a few hours is somewhere
>around a decade of solar UV exposure.)

I admire your thoroughness, but I think putting my media in
a cool, dark place will reduce its exposure to UV and temperature
extremes. Perhaps I'll need to worry about degeneration of
the chemicals inside the CD, or something else we're not guessing
about today. Meanwhile, I'll cross my fingers and assume I'll have
other media choices in the next 5-10 years that'll encourage me
to re-copy my CD-Rs, which have patiently waited in their
fire-proof case.

- John
Received on Tue Jul 24 2001 - 17:46:42 BST

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