[NTLUG:Discuss] CD Turning 25

[Steve Baker]

Robert Pearson wrote:

> That is amazing!
> What's the oldest CD/DVD you have been able to recover from?

Well, I bought a CD (audio) player the first day Philips sold them in 
their staff shop to employees.  That was about a month before they sold
them to the general public.  I bought three CD's on that day: Brothers
in Arms (Dire Straits) - which is the one almost everyone bought.  A 
disk of some classical stuff (I think it was Bach) and a Glenn Miller
CD.

The Brothers in Arms CD (which has to be one of the oldest CD's in
existance) still plays perfectly.  I don't know what happened to the
Bach and my Glenn Miller CD was stolen from my car a couple of years
ago - but it was playing just fine up until that point.

> I was full of confidence about CD/DVD Storage until I started reading
> about the archive life properties:
> <<http://computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,107607,00.html>>

Sure - for important archival stuff you'd be best advised to store in 
multiple media types in multiple locations.