[Milsurplus] Old CPUs

[Jim Conrad]

This is what happens to a quantity of them now..


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At 08:45 PM 1/31/2010, Ray Fantini wrote:
>For years now I have been buying computers from GLA and other 
>sources and everything in the last ten years has the hard drives 
>removed and degaussed. Couple times they have mistakenly left drives 
>in system and have returned them. Don't know how they degaussed 
>metal case drives but it not only removes data from disk it also 
>turns the high power magnets in drive motors to iron. They have gone 
>to a process of sometimes degaussing the whole system and it kills 
>all the motors in the floppy and CD drives, also have never seen a 
>sale of whacked drives so wonder what they do to them?  Somewhere 
>there must be a mountain of old drives and drives carriers.
>Ray Fantini KA3EKH
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