[INDOLOGY] warning about data on CDs

[Allen Thrasher]

This article from the Atlantic, about the Library of Congress's soliciting gifts of old CDs for the sake of testing the permanence of them and their data, may be of interest for those of us who have stored things on them (images of mss, notes or drafts of our own work, etc.):

Your Old CDs Aren't Just Aging; They're Actively Dying
 
   Your Old CDs Aren't Just Aging; They're Actively Dying
That old Michael Jackson disc? You've probably been treating it wrong.  
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Allen 


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