Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:32:49 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Chris Dillon" <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Larry S. Marso" <larry@marso.com> Subject: Re: which CD-R to get Message-ID: <199810302041.PAA10638@laker.net>
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On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:38:29 -0600 (CST), Chris Dillon wrote: >On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Steve Friedrich wrote: > >> >Also, I understand that CD media measures it's lifetime in decades, not >> >months/years. >> >> Hmm, I think there is considerable debate here. The Library of >> Congress did a study and decided to NOT switch to CDs as archive media >> because CDs would only last 10 years at most, sometimes less. And I >> think that was *stamped* CDs, not CDR media. CDR media can be destroyed >> with sunlight!! I was going to run a few tests, but haven't had time. > >I just had an idea (that someone else has probably already had, for >sure) for a media that should last close to forever. Make the CD out of >glass instead of plastic. Since you can't exactly "stamp" glass with >the CD master, you could probably use ultrasonics to "etch" the pits >into the glass. Apply a good coat of gold over that, then some kind of >protective layer, and you've got something that should last a long long >time. Yes, it is fragile (depending on the type of glass you use, i >suppose) and expensive, but in cases where you require very long life, >that would probably be an option. You won't convince archivists... They require durablility too... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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