At 07:43 PM 1/23/2005, Jinx wrote:

> > Weird.. I still have the first CD I ever bought, back in '85 or so
> > Still looks mint, and of course plays just fine.
>
>My earliest CD is marked 1988 (re-release of Groundhogs' Split).
>It too looks perfectly OK. So do all my driver CDs, some of which
>are getting on a bit now, as are the earliest Microchips. I remember
>one of the audio CDs that fell apart was a John Kay / Steppenwolf
>compilation, possibly a release not put out by one of their original major
>labels. The other CDs were of a similar type but I don't recall anything
>they had in common apart from the deterioration. He was a record dealer
>and has many 1000s of CDs, who knows what's rotting away in boxes

Hmm.. I've never seen one do that.. I guess I'm lucky at least in that way.

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