🚀 go-pugleaf

Ray Haddad wrote:
> 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

They do the floppies but do they do cd's as well? I just found this one 
on the web (though it's not the device I originally posted about):

http://www.mysupplydepot.com/pages/item-nrzdd3001.html

Ari