Re: cheap minidiscs?

["Marc Myers" buffymarmoset]

It's fair to assume that none of the methods we use to retain our files are=
 archival in the same way that writing on vellum would be. I think archivin=
g should be considered a process not a media. I have files I created for my=
 wife's business in Lotus twenty-five years ago. I still have those files b=
ut they've been moved from the 40 meg hard drive they were first created on=
 to a one gig drive on the next computer, to a teratabyte external drive I =
just purchased. Along the way there were any number of intermediate floppie=
s, CD's, DVD's and removable storage. Since all of this media is ephemeral =
you just have to keep moving it and backing up the move.