I would think that CDs will probably be around for a long time--VHS is still around and we still have a reel to reel tape player, but the media is slowly being replaced with the DVDs. I started using magnetic tape word processors in 1972 and magnetic card selectric typewriters in 1973. Then the WANG wordprocessors took the place of typewriters. Then came the IBM Displaywriter and Electronic Typewriters with memories, soon followed by Personal Computers. The floppies will probably go away in the not too distant future. I also have had zip disks for about 10 years. Many publishers still use these zip disk drives to run their presses and color copiers. However, the small 100 zip drives are being replaced by the bigger ones. I did a family calendar with 100 photos in it in 1997. Everything was processed using Word Perfect software and graphics and scanned photos in Tif format. It took two zip disks to save the final calendar. One zip disk holds approx 100 HD floppy disks worth of data. One CD can be used to save everything on a hard drive. You can virtually put a whole library in a desk drawer. Now we have email and the JPEG format which takes considerably less bytes than the .tif format. Also with CDs, as opposed to zip disks, the retrieval is much faster. A zip disk costs about $10 each. If you have a CD read/write you can buy CDs by the gross for little of nothing. So, I believe CDs at least will still be around. Lois Hetrick Stewart In a message dated 11/13/2003 5:14:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, cbeachy@gcnetmail.net writes: > > I keep wondering if CD's and floppies will still be around 10 years from > now. > > Connie > > > >