Very good comment from Northeast Document Center. See also article in current issue of Scientific American... John Scott New York Conservation Center [log in to unmask] On Wed, 14 Dec 1994, Northeast Document Center wrote: > Most, if not all, the studies of CD permanence have come out of the > industry, where "archival" may be defined as 5 years or less... > The problem with CD as a long-term format is not so much the > vulnerabilities of the physical object... as the speed of technology > change...