17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
6:17 p.m.
Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> writes:
media for declassification purposes. They remove the oxide layer. In case of floppies the preferred method is incineration, in case of hard drives, the usual technique is sandblasting.
5.25" floppies could be run via a shredder (a big one, not the puny little thing I have at home) but 3.5" floppies would make almost any shredder choke. Some large corporations sell their old floppies to China, where they're supposedly recycled into magentic strips for credit cards. Hmm... --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps