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Re: Disposing old tapes

Nathan Andelin wrote:
Would passing the tape between a couple of strong cow magnets be
just as effective as shredding the tape?

PaultinNZ wrote:
Love to see the replies to this.

Using cow magnets to "bulk" a tape. What a "bezoar" idea.

I should think, though, that any strong magnet, e.g., the back end of a large cast-off loudspeaker, would do the job. But I'm not an expert on data recovery, and so I don't know offhand what it takes to make data irrecoverable.

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