back in the day, before a recording session we would degauss the reels
with a magic wand degausser, on the understanding that doing so to a
master tape would mean a fate worse than death.

I still have a little one somewhere which I would use on quarter-inch
reels, I wonder if that would work on a sealed hard drive?




On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Matt Jones <m...@mattjones.me.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:41 PM, David Greaves <da...@dgreaves.com> wrote:
>> So here we are, a month after Which? gave out the same dumb advice the BBC 
>> follows:
>>
>>  http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_7910000/7910045.stm
>>
>> Sensationalist pillock :)
>>
>> I can't wait for someone to be seriously hurt trying to drill through a hard 
>> drive.
>>
>> FWIW:
>>  http://16systems.com/zero/index.html
>>
>> David
>>
>> --
>> "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..."
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> Waiting for the first legal claim in 5-4-3....
>
> M.
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