Re: X-Raying CDs

[Dave Derenzo <dave@uic.edu>]

John,

Good thinking.  They are not floppy mailers, but there may have been a 
cardboard insert at one time too.

Dave

At 04:38 PM 8/29/00 -0500, you wrote:


>Dave Derenzo wrote:
> >
> > I received a CD in the mail from a company called Blue Ocean Software which
> > was marked DO NOT BEND OR X-RAY.  Are any of you aware of effects that
> > would be caused by x-raying a CD??????  Off-hand I can't imagine what this
> > could possibly do to it.
>
>Don't know about Blue Ocean Software but other companies I've dealt
>with have shipped CD-ROMs in leftover 5.25" floppy shippers.
>Perhaps that is what happened here?
>
>Magnetic fields certainly won't affect the disk.  Radiation won't
>either.  When CDs first came out, that issue arose and one of the
>fellows in my office decided to test one.  He put the disc in the
>instrument department's Cs-137 calibrator and left it for a long
>while, long enough for the plastic to start yellowing.  Still played
>like a champ.
>
>John
>
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Dave Derenzo, MPH  (dave@uic.edu)
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