Long Pond PICS

[ricklou]

Courtesy of Ted Van Dyke

[pmossberg]

These are great Rick. I feel like we're standing trackside!

[chilipepper]

Great photos! Love the 44.

[ricklou]

If you have not been saving these and other pics to your PC or an online photo album .....do it

[songsmith1950]

These really are great! Each a star in his this time frame!

[apttyfn]

Thanks Rick. I save all of these pictures on a cd.

[ricklou]

Kenny, tell me in which way are you saving pics to a CD. I have heard that a burn style CD loses it;s information magnetically after a couple of years. OF course there is the floppy disc and also memory sticks but my knowledge is limited.

Every thing I have is stored in an online album after pulling them off my hardrive.

Paul, Hemi and others here have put up some really nice stuff also.

[pmossberg]

I've read lots of differing oipinins on whether or not CDs will wear out.

They will NOT "wear out" Nothing touchs CD when it is being played or read. So you can watch or listen to them over and over with no ill effects.

And there is nothing magnetic going on with a CD.

CDs are burned (literally) by a laser buring the metallic layers under the plastic coatings.

Because there are metallic elements to a CD, CDs may be affected by corrosion (and the obvious external issues like dirt, scratches etc). Scratches may shorten the life, because if they are deep enough, they give the outside elements access to the metallic layer.

High quality CDs should last for decades. But if you are concerned, simply make it a practice to copy your CDs after ten years or so and presto...a brand new, exact, digital copy, good for another ten + years.

Afterlots of searching, the best explanation I've found is here:

www.scienceagogo.com/news/20040407020458data_trunc_sys.shtml