Subj : Resurgence of non-mainstr
To   : Nightfox
From : MRO
Date : Wed May 04 2022 02:57:09

  Re: Resurgence of non-mainstr
  By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Tue May 03 2022 12:45 pm

 >   Re: Resurgence of non-mainstr
 >   By: Boraxman to Kaelon on Tue May 03 2022 06:34 pm
 >
 >  Bo> I still have some data from the 90s and 2000's, but most people I would
 >  Bo> wager, don't, and if they do, it is lost, obscure, opaque. Look at all
 >  Bo> the BBS's that existed in the 80's and 90's, how many of those are now
 >  Bo> lost forever?
 >
 > When I took my original BBS down in 2000, I burned a backup of it onto a
 > CD-R. Last I checked (just a few years ago), that CD-R is still readable.
 >

it's readable until it isn't.  it depends on that day in the factory, the media type, your drive, and the environment it's in.

even in a perfect environment i had cds rot
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