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RE: arsclist non-member questions about CD-Rs
Dear
All,
The British Library National Sound
Archive used to have a laboratory for testing optical discs. If anyone is
interested in my memoirs of the testing process, and how the sometimes-strange
quoted results were derived, I'd be willing to answer such queries off-line. As
usual, I'd like people to decide whether they would prefer an ASCII .TXT file or
a Word97 file!
Peter
Copeland
At 09:27 AM 03/24/2002
-0600, John Spencer wrote:
- In light of Kodak s decision to discontinue marketing gold archival
media, where will the community look for archival CD-R media with excellent
keeping quality?
and Richard Hess replied:
In discussing my decision with
some people at NARAS (Grammy Grant folks) to use Mitsui Gold blanks, they were
comfortable that I had thought through the process and did not have any
alternative suggestions. We both chuckled at Mitsui's 300-year life expectancy
claim, but wondered how their lawyers would let them say that if there was not
at least some shard of evidence.
Richard L.
Hess
richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Glendale, CA
USA
http://www.richardhess.com/
Web page: folk and church
music, photography,
and
broadcast engineering
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