Grace Ortscheid <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> Now since I've found someone local to take the 2680, my next mission
> on cleaning out the building is the hundreds (thousands?) of 9 track
> mag tapes and 3480 cartridges that we have amassed.  How can we erase
> the data and is anyone interested in them?

When I had to do this very thing at one of my previous jobs (a US Army
site), we bought an electric magnetizer/eraser doo-dad (technical term!)
that bulk-erased all of our 9-track tapes and diskettes.  I don't see one in
my favorite mail order computer supplies catalog, so I don't know if one is
even available now or not.

A honkin' big magnet would do the trick as well. :-)


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