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9 to 5 Mac ^ | August 25, 2016 | By Chance Miller

[Scooter100]

Let's face it...it's been 30 years since I used the original Mac floppies. I've also had CD's and DVD's since day one, and am beginning to discover "problem disks" that won't play. I'm a retired, pragmatic BScEE and have a healthy respect for the frailty of technology.

BTW, over at storagecraft.com they say the following:

Magnetic data (audio tapes) 10-20 years
Nintendo cartridge Up to 10 years
Floppy disk 10-20 years
CDs and DVDs 5-10 unrecorded, 2-5 recorded
Blu-Ray Not certain, probably over 2-5 recorded
M-Disc 1,000 years (theoretically)
Hard disk 3-5 years
Flash storage 5-10 years or more (depends on write cycles)

[MarkL]

I’m no great lover of MS, given that in the early 1990s, NDS was able to provide features that AD-2012 still can’t perform.

And it’s not the best product that often wins in technology, but the best marketed. Unfortunate but true.

Once managers have moved their busines systems to “Microsoft in the cloud,” it will be very diffiuclt to recover it.

Mark