Charles Angelich wrote:
 
---------exploding CDs
 
> As a sidenote I watched a documentary once of a
> Japanese company that manufactured 100 year
> (guaranteed) paper for writing contracts etc. on.
> I think they said they were working on 200 year
> paper? They sold special ink for this too btw. :-)
> I hadn't thought of that before but around here I
> have 15-20 year old printouts that almost crumble
> if you try to unfold them. :-\
 
 Yah. Standard bleached paper, I guess that would
 be. The Japanese btw are paper freaks, most of
 their art being on paper, as compared to canvas
 for us. They're also into inks and pens -- which
 is I suppose why they have a monopoly of the
 better marker market: Pilot, Pentel, etc.
 
 Talking of documentaries, I very vaguely recall
 one on this very subject quite awhile back -
 preserving historical stuff: paper, music, etc.
 Something to do with archives and the Smithsonian
 [?]. But I wasn't really paying attention so I may
 have some of this wrong. I think there was
 something about commercial-type run-of-the-mill
 CDs having -less- range on the sound spectrum than
 the old vinyl records, but as I say I may be
 mistaken. I think also mentioned was a superior
 type of CD that had greater range, that was coming
 or was already out on the market.
 

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