Use mini CDR for equipment info?

[Alexandre Souza - Listas]

> Can't speak to reliability.  You might want to consider the relative
> size of the scanned PDF docs that are common versus the size of the mini
> cds.  The rectangular ones can be as small as 50 MB or less.

    I have old CD-Rs as old as 1996 vintage. This is an old Gold + green TDK 
CD-R. But do new CDs has the same reliability record???

    This is an excellent question - how to preserve data, and a recurrent 
one on this list :)