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spacebug ([personal profile] spacebug) wrote2006-05-08 10:05 am

For cheap or free

We have some stuff that we're getting rid of 'round the office.

Powermac 7200/90. Oooooh. Big. Beige. Slow. Snap up this baby before anyone else does! Please. Please, take it away.

Mac G3 desktop with monitor. Also big, beige, and slow, but not as much. Need a bridge between your zippy new machine and your floppy disks? This is your man.

APS DAT drive. For all your tape backups!

Intel pro/100+ Adapter. Still in box in cellophane.

HP Laserjet IIP. As far as I know, it works.


Also might have copies of Filemaker Pro and a vintage laptop or two, I'll keep you posted.

Also, purely hypothetically, if you had a huge pile of tape backups that you saw no good reason to keep, how would you destroy them?

[identity profile] eqe.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Regarding tapes -- definitely best to let one of the secure disposal places deal with it.

Failing that, find someone with a big axe and safety goggles. Use axe to ensure that no tape spool remains mounted, and no more than 6 inches of tape remains uncut. Dispose of resulting giant mess as standard office waste.

Definitely do not burn them, and do not assume that your magnet skillz are good enough to degauss them.