Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:04:12 -0700 (MST) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> To: schofiel@xs4all.nl Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-R and Scanner recomendations for CD archiving of records? Message-ID: <199803172204.PAA03130@narnia.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199803171640.IAA11589@mail3.sirius.com> <350EE7DC.78D6@xs4all.nl>
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In article <350EE7DC.78D6@xs4all.nl> you wrote: > Comments: > .. > It would not be possible to produce blanks without a conformal > passivating layer below the foil coating; since it is vapour deposited > gold with only a few microns thickness, this would simply rub off in > your hand when you picked it up out of the jewel case (due to body fats > and acids, and no, 10 um of gold is NOT sufficiently resistant to acid > of any kind - think about the layer UNDER the pourous vapour deposit > layer!) Sure, but I have yet to see media that puts something protective against scratches on top of the foil. Take a key to the label side of a TDK CD-R. You don't even have to scratch hard. Oops. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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