Over the past thirty years I've invested heavily in optical media. I have about a thousand CDs and somewhat over half that number of DVDs (the Criterion Collection probably has a picture of me in its boardroom). I've got plenty of software on platters and many, many discs of archives. It would be a considerable nuisance migrating this stuff to other substrates. I cherish my drives: keep a couple boxed in reserve.

Surely that "Zip" reference in your post is not to that hot storage technology from twenty years ago, is it?

cordially,