On Jan 4, 2017, at 1:29 PM, Clark Martin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I feel like the Data Security Dalek: "DE-MAGNETIZE! DE-MAGNETIZE!” 8-) Just be thankful the policy isn’t to do a DOD wipe procedure. Could be a little difficult trying to find an 8” drive… or computer to use it. Given the amounts of iron oxide flakes that peeled away as I was shredding them, I expect that process would have lasted for two, maybe three disks before the drive was unusable. I'm pretty sure, though, that shoving them three at a time through a diamond-cut shredder left no real chance of recovering decades-old NMR studies or Xerox Star docs (we had two of them in the College when I got here in ’91. Amazing machines. ) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
