Old CDs re-purposed

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Over a period of 20 years Mistral made tens of thousands of CD-ROM. These were distributed throughout the world with not just Mistral's own RAC Expert System software but also 'White Label' versions sent to Mistral's scores of sponsoring organisations, for their Marketing use. Mistral would purchase what were called 'Face printable blank CD-R' by the thousands every month. Then in 2015, just as quickly as Mistral switched from using 3½" Floppy discs to CD back in 1995, it all ended. Banks of printers and calibrated multi CD code burners were all turned off for the last time. The day Mistral switched to Website download instead.

Inevitably this left us with a stock of a couple of thousand unused CD-R. We managed to pass a few hundred on, at 'fire sale' prices, we also gave many away. To schools, hospitals and professional photographers who were still using them. Today though we still have around a thousand left. Still sealed in their original vacuum packed cylinders. We tested a couple recently and they still accept being written to, but few people, other than photographers use CD-R today. So what to do with this remaining legacy?

Click on the CD collection image above to find out!.

Mistral's commitment:
Bringing benefits of computerisation to our RAC industry - without the commonly associated problems.

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