Hi, Just getting caught up with several weeks of the digests... About Bill's original post:
> Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 13:04:49 -0400 > From: Bill Rising <brising at Louisville.edu> > Subject: MacGroup: zeroing removed drives > > Hey Folks! > > I recently upgraded my wife and step-daughter's Pismo Powerbooks (the > nice black ones with a white apple which preceded TiBooks) to Panther. > To hold all the extra OS stuff, I got new 40MB drives for both > powerbooks. I have a Pismo, but I wouldn't reinstall those disks multiple times either. Those disk connectors don't feel all that solid. In the responses, (I forgot who wrote that particular note) that was interesting comment about the Demagnetizer Is that like a flatbed thing that you flip on to erase the media? We used to have one like that at a station I worked at, to erase the wide tape, tv video cartridges so they could be re-used. Powerful tho, you had to be careful not to turn it on by accident, and zap out a whole show! I would like to get something like that too, scaled down version, since I need to erase a stack of copy disks, before I get rid of them. How much was one you got, brand name, etc? Bill - not sure what size your disks are- I read at one point a mention of 6mgs each? If they are higher than 10gig, I may want to buy them from you, if you are looking to sell. I could do a solid wipe before using them (which I always do before using a new disk) Thanks, Kay | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
