Heres a neat trick with a hard drive.

[Dragon_CPU]

Theres more to this just have to look at it I think thats pretty wild.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20080510/ap_on_hi_te/shuttle_recovered_data_9

[joz]

****... gona have to find a better way to destroy hd..s

hmm..
anyone got a induction furnace handy?

[dumdum]

Once I saw something cool in court tv. This guy who works in police, he had his wife killed. So ofcourse, people went into investigation. They told the guy to bring this CD but he ripped it with a pinky scissor (weird) so ofcourse they knew that he was a suspicious guy. They knew something was in there so they tried to recover it. Surprising, they took the pieces together and put them together. The recovery worked and only for $100.

[PP Mguire]

The computer was running an ancient operating system, DOS, which does not scatter data all over drives as other approaches do.Its not that old.

[NoRest4wkd]

Its not that old.

Maybe not, but those of us that still remember DOS are pretty old! ;-)

[PP Mguire]

Im 19 and still use it.

[srpeters18]

Maybe not, but those of us that still remember DOS are pretty old! ;-)

I'm only 26. I started with DOS 5.0 and eventually moved all the way to 6.22. Also had a copy of 2.something running on an 80/86. I'm not old.

[Scott]

When I worked at my goverment contractor job we used Ontrack a few times. They did a good job, only problem back then was they sent the data back to you on 5 1/4 inch floppies.

[PP Mguire]

Dont you mean 5 1/4?

[MtDew]

Im 19 and still use it.

I am starting to feel old.... I first started working on computers (286/386SX) when PP Mguire was still in diapers. I used DOS 3.3 and MFM hard drives. Back then there was a three step process to get a new MFM hard drive up and going. 1st you had to run prep, then fdisk and finally you could format the drive. On a 40 Meg drive it would take about 2 1/2 to 3 hrs to do this. I don't miss those days.......

[Scott]

Old, here is old. When I started as a tech for ComputerLand in 1983 I was building IBM PC's that customers bought using tape drives for storage.

[PP Mguire]

My dad tells of stories when he worked on PCs that where as big as a room in a large house. Thats old.

[Pablo 54]

Back in the 80’s my Fire Direction Control computer was only 34K with a tape drive. Weighed a ton but could take a 7.62mm round at close range and still work. Never had to test that ability, which was nice.:grin:Still impressed by what it could do with only 34K and a tape.

[joz]

I still havea few flavors of DOS running around on floppies somewere.

I used a few times when fixing realy old pc's that dint accept my standard aray of DSL, redhat, xp, 2000, 98 or 95 for w/e reason.

[typh4u]

Old, here is old. When I started as a tech for ComputerLand in 1983 I was building IBM PC's that customers bought using tape drives for storage.



I remember ComputerLand use to be in a local mall here. That and Kaypro Computers...... The good ole days of 8088's 286's and turbo buttons....

[PP Mguire]

286's and turbo buttons....486 OD 100mhz with a turbo button and Voodoo1 with Riva TNT *drool*