Subj : I still have some spindles I never used
To   : Bob Roberts
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Jan 03 2021 13:39:00

Hello Bob!

** On Sunday 03.01.21 - 10:10, Bob Roberts wrote to Warpslide:

 BR> Buying CDRs in bulk from strange internet sites that got
 BR> them direct from Tokyo where the best ones were made.
 BR> Verbatium blue bottoms were my prize.  Then spindles started
 BR> showing up at best buy.  "50 CDRWs for $16! But they are
 BR> cheap ones.  I'll get them anyways for dumb stuff, but I'll
 BR> keep my Verbatium blue bottoms for important things."
 BR> Buying big stacks of jewel cases and snapping them together.
 BR>  I still have some spindles I never used.  I bet they are
 BR>  long rotted.  I probably have a thousand CDRs in stacks
 BR>  that are all useless now.

I've read that the writeable DVDs were more prone to "rot" than  
CD-Rs.

My CD-R collections from the early 2000s still play quite well  
[as long as I didn't try to maximize the 80min capacity close to  
79:59]  ;)   Later, I learned about the blue ones too, and stuck  
to those.

When I encountered CD-RWs I thought I had the ultimate solution  
for making my MP3 or audio discs.  But most of those simply  
refused to burn after a handful erasures.

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