Article on data rot on CD's

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Tue Jul 27 11:47:38 2004

>>>>> "Mike" == Mike McFadden <McFadden> writes:

 Mike> I saw this today on USA today website. I've been scanning 50
 Mike> year old slides to CD's and I still have my older PDP-11 data
 Mike> backed up as paper listings and now on CD's. The NIST also has
 Mike> a paper on data longevity and storage suggestions for CD's and
 Mike> DVD's.

A good website to read if you want to see discussions on LONG term
data storage is www.longnow.org. Aptly named -- their notion of
"long" is way longer than anyone else's.

       paul
Received on Tue Jul 27 2004 - 11:47:38 BST