<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On May 4, 2006, at 10:36 PM, Lee Licata wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If one is interested in buying a burnable CD that has the highest likelihood of preserving the contents burned the longest period of time, which ones should I be looking for, or what "spec" should I be seeing?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Medical Grade disks last the longest. Generally expected to last 300 years. After medical grade disks, gold is the next best thing.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>TDK, Verbatim, and others make Medical grade and gold CD-R's.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here's one source:</DIV><DIV><<A href="http://www.datamediastore.com/cdr.html">http://www.datamediastore.com/cdr.html</A>></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--<DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Nick Scalise</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:nickscalise@cox.net">nickscalise@cox.net</A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>