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To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (6136)	1/19/1999 5:17:00 PM
From: rll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

"5) Media stability - contrary to popular belief, the shelf life of CD's is about 10 years, not 100 years - versus 5-6 years for magnetic media like Zip." Lipo, Would you please substantiate your 10 year claim for a cd's shelf life? TIA. rll P.S. I can understand that scratches may cause problems associated with use, but sitting on a shelf? Here is a link to TDK: "Guaranteed Archival Life Span of More Than 100 Years" tdk.com

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (6136)	1/19/1999 5:35:00 PM
From: Troy Shaw	Respond to of 10072

Philip, "[Zip] Disk (estimated) shelf life: 10 years " from iomega.com. That's a little better than your 5-6 years number.

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (6136)	1/20/1999 12:02:00 AM
From: Bobo Bear	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

>>>The problems with CD-RW media are several: >>>2) Expense - generally, I've seen CD-RW media sell for about $15, but have heard that you can get them for $5 each in quantity and after rebate. So you are telling me on average $10 per 529MB is a problem with todays CD-RW technology? Then you must really consider Zip and Jaz disks as being grossly over priced. I think the low cost per MB of CD-R and CD-RW media, versus Zip or Jaz, as being an advantage of CD-RW drives. One thing nice for the consumer, CD-R and CD-RW media is non-proprietary. So if this technology ever is embraced by the mass consumer the price of the disks will probably fall. Obviously a negative for IOM, which is also a negative for the optical folks. If they don't see a way to make a profit by selling either the drives or the disks, then there is less of a reason to expend the dollars to create a mass market $200 8X CD-RW drive.