We have some of those and if they get scratches the gold coating peels right off.
B

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From: Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Randy Cabell DHoVA
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 12:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] FW: Goochland County marks 5 millionth chancery image

Huzzah for getting those things into digital form.  So much easier to share.

I just bought 100 "Gold" CDs which are advertised to hold the data for 300 
years!!!!!  Why, my ancestor, William Cabbell, had not even come to America 
300 years ago.  I don't think anybody in the Coloney even had a CD player.

That's a round-about-way of saying that I don't think for one minute those 
disks are going to last 300 years, but apparently they do last considerable 
longer than plain vanilla CDs.  I have some audio CDs that I acquired about 
1982, and they are still going strong 28 years later...... So maybe the 
300-ones will go for a century.  Then the problem will be WHAT to play them 
on!!!!!!

Randy Cabell

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