[OM] Re: CD, DVD lives, July 2005

[Walt Wayman]

The purchase receipt should be kept with the disks, along with explicit 
instructions that in the event of premature failure the purchaser's great, 
great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great-grandchildren can raise 
hell and sue the bastards.

Walt

--
"Anything more than 500 yards from 
the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
Edward Weston

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Wayne Harridge <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > "Accelerated aging tests 
> > show that MAM Gold can be used as a reliable storage media for more than 
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> > 300 years." Of course, none of us are likely to know if they are right 
> > or not. :-)   Not cheap compared to the mass market, but may be a 
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> As a physicist I would NEVER trust any extrapolation from a short test (maybe 
> it 
> was 3 years max ?) out to 300 years.  Once again marketing triumphs over 
> logic !
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> ...Wayne
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> Wayne Harridge
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> http://lrh.structuregraphs.com
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