On 1/18/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Chalk that up to CDC's not-so-imaginative
"asset disposal" policy;
things must be mangled beyond all usability before disposal. I saw
CE's take sledgehammers to disk drives.
It's not just manufacturers (who are trying to comply with various
regulations on scrapping equipment and taxes)... When I was at Lucent
in Columbus, they started drilling through the HDAs of discarded
drives, not to protect against data theft from a working drive, but
against employee harvesting of the scrap bins.
Saw a lot of things there I wish I could have saved, including a 3 cu
ft box loaded with PDP-11 core memory, and other DEC items from the
1970s and 1980s. I would have happily have paid many times the gold
scrap value of the boards, but, for obvious bean counter reasons, no
mechanism exists for that.
-ethan