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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've heard of government departments filing down the old HD's into |
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> >little pieces, then mixing them in cement for the next building project. |
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> >Could be an urban legend though. |
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> >All of the above is subject to my own bad memory :) |
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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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Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> |
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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the |
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places they do today. |
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-- Will Rogers |
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