On 01/05/2018 02:37 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > I don't know how long YOU expect to live, but I don't think that I will > last as long as a lot of my data (which FEW if ANY will want) (But, > I've asked my lawyer to place in my will, provisions for my collection > of "alien" disks to go to Eric Smith and Al Kossow. As well as > authorizations for certain people to take whatever they want of my > personal property)
I suppose that I should at least catalog my "alien" media--there's a lot of it. One of these days. It's hard enough to keep the stuff roughly alphabetized. At any rate, the latest study I can find on the longevity of optical media is this 2005 NIST paper: https://www.nist.gov/publications/nistlibrary-congress-loc-optical-media-longevity-study --Chuck
