[rescue] cd-rom rot

[Dave McGuire]

On February 20, 2020 3:52:02 PM Robert Toegel <rjtoegel at gmail.com> wrote:
> There was an article years ago in Scientific American about how permanent
> difference storage media were before you find bit errors appearing.  IIRC,
> it was about two years for floppies and about ten years for CDs.  That one
> lost a lot of bits, lol.  Guess paper tape wins again.

  Ha, I regularly read data from 40 year old floppies!

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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