My only intent was to play devil's advocate on this. Case in point. We had the last active Honeywell 800 in the Air Force. It used 1" metal reel tapes with plastic leaders. We started to run low, the call went out and we got about 10,000 in from another site. We started out to check all headers, etc. In the meantime a new RJE style machine went in and the 800 was immediately useless. But now we had close to 20,000 tapes to dispense of. We started out degaussing them, but at 1-2 minutes per tape, it was tedious and very time intensive. (Cut off leader, degauss tape, reband, pack, etc.)
Finally cooler heads prevailed and the consensus was who in the world was going to read a 1" tape? So while I suggest purge before destruction, you can see where some thought processes run. The recent spate of itinerant laptops makes one stop to think. Daniel McLaughlin ZOS Systems Programmer Crawford & Company PH: 770 621 3256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
