1 Apr
1998
1 Apr
'98
7:08 a.m.
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Pete Joules wrote:
Thus was it ever! Once a 'bean counter' always a 'bean counter'.
- don
As one facet of this, we might consider what
people would do with
their old systems, if they even got the *impression* that their
private information might be read by a new owner. They might
prefer to totally destroy the machine than to take a risk like
that.
I have had an instance of this recently. At work a tape drive attached to a
PC and which takes the same size casettes as my Sun386i is about to become
redundant. The an accounts clerk in the department concerned has said that
I will not be able to have the _drive_ because it has been used for
confidential data. The fact that the data is on the _tapes_ seems to
reflect on the availability of the drive!
Regards
Pete