Hi Greg.

30-Sep-03 07:41:00, Greg Mayman wrote to Roy J. Tellason



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

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

 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.

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

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

I've still got a couple of working 5.25" floppy drives...  but I don't
think I'll still have them in 10 years time.

DVD drives can read CDs but after DVDs are obsolete there's a good chance media
will change shape.

 -=> Bye <=-

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