Re:

> 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?

We bought a tape eraser at Radio Shack a few years ago.  It sems to
work pretty well, but it has a short duty cycle (something like on for
5 minutes, off for 30 minutes).

Note: it did appear to erase our 9 track mag tapes, but it had less
success with DDS tapes.

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Stan Sieler                                          [log in to unmask]
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