Check Your Old CDs and Their Sleeves!

I’ve been cleaning up and reorganizing the work room in my home since I’m spending so much time there these days. I found a bunch of CDs stored in white plastic sleeves that I think were recycled from the discs that my MSDN subscription CDs came in during the late 1990s (they currently come in black sleeves made from different feeling materials). All the slleves (now at least 10 years old) were disintegrating into a white powder. I’ll probably clean the CD surfaces with an eyeglass cleaner (mild solution) before trying them in a reader. But, the lesson learned is to check the sleeves and other containers more frequently.