🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:59:52 +0800, I said, "Pick a card, any card"
and spodosaurus <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> instead replied:

>Patrick Hamlyn wrote:
>> spodosaurus <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>I've seen these around in years passed. They look like a miniature 
>>>toasted sandwich maker. You put a data cd that you want to destroy 
>>>inside, close the lid, and squeeze the handles together and the device 
>>>cracks the cd. Where can I get one of these in Perth? I've checked one 
>>>officeworks and one kmart and neither had them, though I'm almost 
>>>certain when I first saw it it was at one of these places.
>> 
>> Put the CD into your microwave and set on high. Set the timmer for 5 seconds.
>> Press start, and admire the skyshow.
>> 
>> You can safely discard the CD now in the knowledge that even the CIA can't
>> recover data from it.
>> 
>> PS don't blame me if your house burns down.
>
>We recently had a 'non microwaveable plastic' issue...I think I'll keep 
>looking for the device :-) With the damage to my hands working the 
>wiltshire heavy duty scissors is causing problems with so many old cds 
>and dvds to destroy, and a shredder that handles cds costs a minimum of 
>$369!

Ari,

Dick Smith has two different shredders that will do the job. Both
can accept those 3.5inch diskettes with the metal bits left intact.
Shreds them up into the raw atoms from whence they came, it does.

I think they're about $100 at the moment.
--
Ray