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

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Buy the 5.25's now, and store them - that's what I'm doing.

Roy

Quadrajet1 wrote:

> >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