A) The manufacturers are admitting that their earlier products did not live up to what they originally promised, i.e. that the CD would provide us with a new "permanent" storage medium - otherwise, why would you have to introduce a new product that will revolutionize the industry ("and we really mean it this time - honest!")?
B) Basically, there's no evidence to support the viability of CD as a permanent medium for archival records, even assuming planned obsolescence (sp?) doesn't get you first.
A lesson, I think, for the powers that be, who tell us that we should just dump it all in digital format and toss the paper: where will it all be in 50 years - usable, or digital junk?
DS
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Daniel Sokolow
Archives Coordinator
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
155 Community Drive
Great Neck, NY 11021
dsokolow@nshs.edu
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