Greg Mayman wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 -=> Roy J. Tellason said to Greg Mayman
 -=> about "VEHICLE LED'S" on 09-27-03  04:06.....

 RJT> That's one of the reasons I have a scanner,  and a cd burner.  :-)

 GM> That's fine if you have the data sheets in the first place.

True.

 GM> I have a collection of old data sheets going back about 45 years,
 GM> all of them still 100% readable, and several data books that are
 GM> even older, also quite readable.

That must amount to a fair amount of bulk.  

 GM> Can anyone claim that sort of life for a CD-ROM?

Beats me.

 GM> Or will anyone still have a CD-ROM drive in 40 years? And the
 GM> software to read the data?

That's another issue entirely.  OTOH,  once you get the data in a digital
format,  it's easy enough to move from one medium to another,  with no
degradation at all,  which is something I've also been doing for a number
of years.  The exception to this is stuff that I'd archived on to floppies,
 which turned out to have problems.  I guess that's what I get for
re-cycling old AOL disks.  

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