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You might be interested in knowing this. There is a difference in how the CD's are "burned" by companies producing music and/or audiobook CD's on one hand, and how things are "burned" by us on our personal computers on the other hand. Companies use equipment which creates physical pits in the metal foil beneath the plastic part of the CD to create the string of 0's and 1's making up digital information. Our computers print (if memory serves me accurately) the 0's and 1's onto the disk; therefore, it is easier for the digital information to be corrupted. The upshot: our commercially-produced CD's will be good for a longer time than our home-produced ones, all other things being equal.
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See, now I have learned something from this discussion! My day has not been wasted.
Could anyone let me know if my zip drive discs are likely to last longer, if so I will start using them again.