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They are currently $1 per disk, are reusable, and last a very long time.

It is likely they are still being manufactured, too.

Even if the price were to double, I suspect that someone with the skills to make this has a sufficiently well paying job that the price of a hundred disks per year would not be a problem.



> It is likely they are still being manufactured, too.

As far as I can tell, they are not.


I think so! As far as I can google, it seems like everything available is new-old-stock or recovered discs.

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-s...

Interesting little read I fell into while looking this up!




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