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Re: Destroying Mag Tapes
From:
Steve Weisbrod <[log in to unmask]>
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Steve Weisbrod <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:02:39 -0400
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It's been my experience that if you stand in front of the tape library
cabinet with a worried look on your face and say in a loud voice "Oh No! A
disc drive crashed... I have to restore all of the files from these tapes"
the tapes immediately become unreadable.

Steve (Art's giggle goes here) Weisbrod
Beechglen Development, Inc.
Cincinnati, Ohio



> Subject: Destroying Mag Tapes
> Author:  Dean Colotti <[log in to unmask]> at trcinternet
> Date:    4/10/97 1:13 PM
>
>
> We have an excess of Mag Tapes and would like to get rid of them.  We
would
> like to destroy/make them unreadable.  What is the best way to do this
> besides demagnetising them?
>
> Thanks in advance for your assistance.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Dean M. Colotti

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