[ARSCLIST] Mitsui / MAM-A Gold CD's

[Christie Peterson <cpeterso@xxxxxxxxx>]

Back in the discussion last week or so about CD-R's,

Charles Lawson wrote:
> [Mitsui recently shifted their manufacturing from Japan to the US and
> France.  As a result, their quality control is suffering and it's not
> uncommon to take a disc out of its shrinkwrapping and find fingerprints or
> greasy smears "factory installed."  However, my average in these
> discoveries is about one out of every 25 discs...but it used to be ZERO.]
>   
I'm curious if anyone knows a way to tell where a CD was produced by 
looking at it (apart from finding a lot of greasy smears), like lot 
numbers or something?  I haven't been finding any CD's like this in the 
batch I just purchased, but I wonder how old the stock was?

Christie Peterson
Project Archivist, Muskie Archives & Special Collections
Bates College
70 Campus Avenue
Lewiston, ME 04240-6018
(t) 207-753-6918
(f) 207-755-5911




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