Re: A2 Trade/Swap???? site discovered - What are your thoughts on such a site?

[quadrajet1@aol.com (Quadrajet1)]

>Are even CD Roms the way to go?  An article in Time or Newsweek a year or
>two ago stated that CD Roms have a lifespan of only 5 years.  I'm using some
>22 year old floppies now that still run.  Some of the online FTP sites stated
>that 5-10% of their files were corrupted.  I don't want to go back to typing
>in Apple II programs, but that' the only way I can see that doesn't degrade
>in the
>short term.
>		Jay Edwards

   I have also read that the life span of a CD is like 50 years.  So who to
believe.  Still, the life span of CD's have to be more, and like I said, in 10
years or probably less, you are going to be hard pressed to find 5 1/4"
floppies anymore.  8 Track tape players were the rage at one time, just try and
find the tapes today. Try and find new Beta VCR tapes.  Reel to Reel are hard
to find.  5 1/4" floppies will be the same way someday.  3 1/2" will be easier
to find because there are so many more of the drives out there these days.

Raymond