Subj : Resurgence of non-mainstr
To   : MRO
From : Boraxman
Date : Thu May 05 2022 08:36 pm

-=> MRO wrote to Nightfox <=-

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MR>   Re: Resurgence of non-mainstr
MR>   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.
>

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

MR> even in a perfect environment i had cds rot

Mine are all good, including DVD's, except for a few which have deteriorated
around the edges.  A bad lot from one spindle.

But the last time you checked, may be the last time you could have ever read
the disk, so it is best to move them to Hard Drive and make a backup of the
Hard Drive if you don't want to lose the files.

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