Speaking of degaussers. One of the last things I did before leaving my Computer Operator position several years ago was convince my management to invest in one of these... http://www.garner-products.com/deg4000.htm
I believe it was something around $10,000 USD, but it paid for itself in a fairly short time. It's been used to erase just about any format tape you can imagine as well as the hard drives that were pulled out of a couple old DASD boxes. -Bret Hoesly -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 9:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 3480 IDRC drives using 3490E media Pommier, Rex R. wrote: > Radoslaw, careful what you are willing to give away - are these tapes > completely free of any confidential data? We've gone to the steps of > shredding old tapes just to keep the residual information secret. Degausser -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
