PATA hard disks, anyone?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 03/27/2018 09:19 AM, Ethan via cctalk wrote:

> Yep! I've watched thousand(s) of pounds of working hard drives get
> shredded.

This is nothing new.  In the 1970s, the official CDC diktat was to
reduce any surplused equipment to scrap.  That included taking a
sledgehammer to disk drives and other objects.  I witnessed lots of
functional gear done in this way.

Apparently this was to prevent surplus parts finding their way into the
supply stream--and then having to service them.

--Chuck