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..." >> - >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please >> visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. >> Unofficial list archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ >> > > Waiting for the first legal claim in 5-4-3.... > > M. > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/