30 May
1999
30 May
'99
3:34 p.m.
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Let's see.
I have enough old 4096s to make a decent R.A.I.D. And 225s, 412s, And a
lot of other old drives and diskettes.
But many of them were parts of systems on which I worked on source code of
a little bit of value. (enough so that there was actually a break-in
attempt at theft once! But the casing was so clumsy that all that they
got were some diskettes clearly labelled "V2.4 source code self-extracting
archive", that actually contained a trojan to wipe hard disk directories.)
It would be a hassle to reassemble a machine just to check the drives to
make sure that they were all erased properly. So, should I give the ones
that I no longer want to somebody who acknowledges intellectual property
rights and would HELP if I screwed up and made a mistake; or should I let
somebody have them who feels that whatever is on them is now theirs, and
would RUN a self-extracting archive?
Your point is well taken as to whom might be suitable recipients, but in
reality, it shouldn't take but 20 minutes to cobble together a
motherboard with minimal memory, video, and an MFM HDC to do a low level
format on each of them. That would rather eliminate the agonizing. For
my part, I'd take the ST-412s and 225s before I'd look at the 4096s,
though.
- don