OT: Disposing Old Computer Parts

[Christopher Browne]

On 6/7/07, John Vetterli <jvetterli-zC6tqtfhjqE at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, tleslie wrote:
> > I am thinking for those who are in an apartment or don't have a heavy
> > hammer ...
> > what cheap chemical would wreck a disk?
> > pool acid? or maybe something that would oxidize it quick?
> > I am thinking there should be a product,
> > something with a plastic bin, and a chemical,
> > and you put the disk in , add chemical, shake,
> > and 10 minutes later, a unrecoverable hard drive!!
> > Preferably with a "green chemical".
>
> Maybe manufacturers should start making hard drives with built-in "Destruct"
> buttons :)

They did, except they left out the button; remember the IBM
"DeathStar" drives?  They'd self-destruct after a while with no user
intervention required ;-).

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