Chalk up my vote for CD-recordables. We hesitated after hearing many warnings about reliability of recording (misfires, etc); but we recently purchased a computer from Gateway 2000 with a 3GB hard drive and an SCSI-interfaced CD-R already installed, complete with Corel CD-Creator software. After writing about 5 disks thus far (and several with multi-session format) it hasn't missed once. [However one of my colleages took his CD to another site and found that the CD-ROM in their system didn't have multisession capability and thus the "added" data (following the first write) was unreadable.] While CD-R technology has certainly improved since the early days (all of about a year or two ago), it's still not as simple as just copying to a Jazz or Zip. However, it's well worth it if compatibility and media cost are your concerns. And while DVD is on the horizon, I understand that the first drives will be read-only, as was the case with CD's. PC Magazine estimates a minimum of a year or two before the writable drives are available. If you have an inclination to do this, don't wait on DVD; CD is likely to be with us for some time yet. Neal -- Neal Benson University of Florida E-mail: neal-benson@ufl.edu
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