I guess a degausser could be pared down to being "a honkin' big magnet..."

Places that often have these are sound studios/radio stations, etc. You
might find out from them where to buy/rent/borrow one for something like
this.

I ruined a couple of wristwatches using one at the college radio station I
worked at, back in the day...

Aaron

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Jim Phillips wrote:

> 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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