5 Sep
1999
5 Sep
'99
7:45 a.m.
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
Good point by Allison and by Tony. The sandblasting to erase could,
instead, mean that it had to be sandblasted to DESTROY it before releasing
to a third party. Certainly that could erase it.
I assumed that
by "particular bit of silliness" you meant "the 'erased by
sandblasting' idea" but after a little thought, I realized that maybe you
just meant "the spreading of a patently false statement".
I wonder if
this disk came from a secure (military, possibly)
installation, and the platter had to be sandblasted before it could be
given to the museum. To prevent any possibility of future data recovery. Of course the implication is that the disk was
sandblasted in normal use,
which appears to be absurd.
THAT is the "particular bit of silliness" to which I referred. Hmmm. on
the head carriage there would be an extra nozzle assembly to sand blast?
And maybe a vacuum sand recovery system for reuse?