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Article #3886Re: Erasing magnetic media
From: Carl Lowenstein
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1987 05:42
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1987 05:42
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In article <456@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> hildum@iris.UUCP (Eric Hildum) writes:
+I believe that the Curie point for most commonly used media is 200
+Celsius - which should be hot enough to destroy the mylar of tapes or
+floppies. As for hard disks, once it is no longer magnetic, you will
+have a hard time writing new data onto it, won't you?
Cool it!!
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!sdcsvax!sdcc6!mplvax!cdl From: cdl@mplvax.nosc.MIL (Carl Lowenstein) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Erasing magnetic media Message-ID: <692@mplvax.nosc.MIL> Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 00:42:40 EST Article-I.D.: mplvax.692 Posted: Thu Nov 12 00:42:40 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 15:30:29 EST References: <7566@reed.UUCP> <1175@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: cdl@mplvax.nosc.mil.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein) Organization: U.C. San Diego, Marine Physical Laboratory Lines: 13