I agree with Harry, why not use a large magnet?  I purchased one from 
Radio Shack several years ago, very large thing, plugs in and about the 
size of an iron.  I have not tried it with a hard drive, but boy it 
will wipe out about everything else for sure, does a great job.

John R.

On Jul 5, 2004, at 11:31 AM, Bill Rising wrote:

> On Jul 4, 2004, at 14:48, Brian wrote:
>
>> You can go to Compusa and get a converter for them and use them in a 
>> desktop. The converter price is about 6.00. just plug it into the 
>> drive and plug the drive into your deskop.
>> Thank you can either use it as a regular drive for extra space, or 
>> zero it out.
>>
>
> That was a good idea. Unfortunately, being cheap, I have another old 
> scavenged drive in my AGP mac already, so it is maxed out. As for the 
> Beige G3 (my other basement machine), it can have but one hard drive, 
> because it is the earliest model of tower G3s.
>
> I wish I'd have thought to zero the drives after getting all the info 
> off of them!
>
> Bill
>
>
>
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