12th April 2007, 2:53 PM
Runs down? Not really. Save for scratches those things last a long time. My old disks for things like Final Fantasy 7 and so on still work fine. Moving is probably what did it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)