At 15:49 -0700 5/15/12, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >Gotta love Wikipedia! I clicked on the 'srm' link in the above article to find >this helpful suggestion: > >"The US government recommends complete physical destruction of hard disk data >surfaces to guarantee secure data erasure. Presumably, this can be >accomplished by abrasion, or by a small amount of thermite ignited over a >large, well-ventilated pot containing sand." >
As a physicist working for the US Navy at a time well before the IBM peecee appeared, let alone Windows, we wanted to use the computers on Minuteman missiles that were being decommissioned. The idea was that everyone in the laboratory could have a machine on his desk as opposed to using a dumb terminal or flexowriter attached with an RS 232 pair to the big machine. Plenty of talent was available to handle the software. What a great idea that was not to happen. It appeared that the very special disks, that were needed for any kind of operation, once had targeting information on them that nobody knew how to erase with certitude. They got crushed along with the computers. -- 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
