Re: Speaking of old hardware

Bill Campbell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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