🚀 go-pugleaf

spodosaurus wrote:
> 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

Ack, google doesn't always abide by the selection to return Australian 
results only. However, I wonder if this would adequately do the job:

http://www.streetwise.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=2077