Needed a piece of software today, and was too lazy to go online since I was pretty sure I had it on a disc somewhere.
Found it on a dual-layer (8 gigabyte) Arena blank, burned back in May 2008 (I picked up the useful habit of writing the burn date on discs). It’s late now so I didn’t feel like testing the whole disc, but the 150 megabytes I needed out of those 8 gigs just wouldn’t read :( Tried it in two different drives, too.
While the disc was spinning in the second computer, I found the same program on a CD blank. Slow, but it read fine. Intenso, burned back in the carefree days of youth, somewhere around 2003–2005 (hadn’t developed the useful habit of dating discs yet back then).
Conclusions, gentlemen: Verbatim only. Everything else is for your enemies.