Posted by Franc Zabkar on 05/12/07 00:33

On Fri, 11 May 2007 08:13:52 -0500, Allen <allen@nothere.net> put
finger to keyboard and composed:

>Actually, I've never had a CD that had trouble with scratches on the
>"playing" surface. One of the first CDs I owned, back when they really
>new, sprang out of my hand when I was extracting it from the case. I
>searched high and low for it, but couldn't find it--I finally decided
>that it had migrated to another dimension. About two0 months later, it
>fell out of a reclining chair, where it had nestled down in the works.
>It looked like it had been in a torrid affair with a chainsaw, but I
>decided to try to play it before trashing it. Lo and behold! it played
>with nary a problem, ...

I once used a screwdriver to score an AOL CD along several radii. I
managed to retrieve all the files without a problem.

- Franc Zabkar
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