Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 16:54:58 09/05/02
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On September 05, 2002 at 18:02:59, Stuzzi Kadent wrote: >On September 05, 2002 at 17:49:35, William H Rogers wrote: > >>Sarah that sounds like my sons excuse to his teachers "my dog ate my homework" >>VCR tapes and floppy disks are suppost to have a useful life of about 10 years, >>while CD's and DVD's should last about 100 years. Scratched CD's can easily be >>repaired. The surface of the CD is only a plastic coating to protect the metal >>disk that contains the information. >>Just joking about the 'dog' >>Bill > >She said the disc was cracked. Are you are aware that CDRoms rotate the discs at >high speed and that discs with imperfections can shatter? I also had this once I did put my cd in my cd-rom player and it cracked pieces flying out the cd-rom player with high speed.
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