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Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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>On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 06:56 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>>Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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>>I have heard the same thing. I have watched some of them on TV get data |
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>>off some unbelievable drives. Some had bent platters, serious |
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>>scratches, been formatted a few times etc etc etc, After all that, |
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>>they still got enough of what they wanted. They put a chemical on one |
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>>and you could see the data with your eyes. It looked like a round bar |
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>>code sort of. |
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>hmm, sounds suspicious... It could have been some sort of serial number, |
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>but if you could see it with your eye, it definitely wasn't 0's and 1's |
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>of data. |
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>Someone will know (I don't) what the density is on a modern platter. |
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Well, the one you could see was a old floppy. I think it was a 5 1/4 |
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floppy. You had to look close but after they put the chems on it, you |
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could see it when they zoomed in on it pretty good. |
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I would assume they could do the same for a hard drive and just use |
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something to magnify it, like maybe a microscope or something. |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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To err is human, I'm most certainly human. |
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I have four rigs: |
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1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker |
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2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty |
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3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey |
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4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput |
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All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. |
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