Re: Speaking of old hardware
Bill Campbell <[email protected]>
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On Thu, May 17, 2007, Jon Lewis wrote: >On Thu, 17 May 2007, Chris Adams wrote: > >>Seriously though, what do ISPs do with obsolete hardware in general? >>RaQs don't even have enough sheet metal to make it worth trying to sell >>them for scrap. Who wants 10G (and slow) IDE hard drives? I think the >>MIPS CPU in my TiVo is more powerful than the one in the RaQ. > >We had 1800-got-junk haul away a bunch of stuff like that. I don't know >what they do with it. I've got a large box full of old >small/obsolete/faulty hard drives. That's even trickier, because some may >have data we can't allow to fall into the wrong hands. I was hoping to >put together a shooting event using hard drives as the targets...but at >the moment, that's not looking promising. A 3lb hammer does wonders on old hard drives, and can do wonders if one feels like beating on something. Bill -- INTERNET: [email protected] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 ``Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches.'' Will Rogers _______________________________________________ "Eat sushi frequently". - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list