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RE: cd's as archive medium-maybe not?

Subject: RE: cd's as archive medium-maybe not?
From: "Neville Recording" <>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:41:22 -0700
Walter Knapp wrote:
"I have CD-R that were burned as much as 8 years ago that are all fine. I
think part of the problem is that back then we only had slow burners and
the CD-R blanks were made for that. Now we have high speed burners and
it's getting harder to find blanks made for the more reliable slow speed
burning. Burning a high speed blank with slow speed is going to result
in non-standard pit size."


I use an HHB Burnitt CDR 830. I think it would be described as a slow burne=
r? So far I have had no problem with archive material but my oldest materia=
l is only two years old. For CDr's I always buy the best deal at Radi Shack=
! Can anyone recommend reliable CDR's for my unit? You could say that I am =
burning with anticipation.
John Neville
www.nevillerecording.com






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