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switcher excitment replaced by frustration
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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 960041" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>I'd have to agree with the UDF flux thing when it comes to older CD's. I have hundreds if not thousands of CDs that I burned as far back as the late '90s that, IIRC gave the Mac that I had at the time fits just as described. Worked fine on a Windows box, but the Mac wouldn't cope with them. I just wrote off the data on those CD's (gotta let go of the past sometime, though photos kind of need to have longevity.) Don't blame the Mac, blame the companies going through format wars at the time before settling down on a standard so we can now archive things more reliably today.</p><p></p><p>Data rot has been an issue since we stored stuff on punched cards, paper tape, magtape and you name a format. Not Apple's fault. I'm just glad for the media I still CAN read whether it be on Mac/PC/IBM3090 with 3350 DASD (that last one is a circa '80s mainframe that probably still powers some of NASA's stuff today.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 960041, member: 9385"] I'd have to agree with the UDF flux thing when it comes to older CD's. I have hundreds if not thousands of CDs that I burned as far back as the late '90s that, IIRC gave the Mac that I had at the time fits just as described. Worked fine on a Windows box, but the Mac wouldn't cope with them. I just wrote off the data on those CD's (gotta let go of the past sometime, though photos kind of need to have longevity.) Don't blame the Mac, blame the companies going through format wars at the time before settling down on a standard so we can now archive things more reliably today. Data rot has been an issue since we stored stuff on punched cards, paper tape, magtape and you name a format. Not Apple's fault. I'm just glad for the media I still CAN read whether it be on Mac/PC/IBM3090 with 3350 DASD (that last one is a circa '80s mainframe that probably still powers some of NASA's stuff today.) [/QUOTE]
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