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I am, at the very least, going to keep the magnets from the hard drives. I
bet they're whoppers compared to the PC ones.

I remember ripping apart an older box with huge 250mb (yes mb) drives. 4
platters in each, and I think 6 or 8 magnets each. That is what started my
magnet collection.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 10:19 AM Javier Sanchez <
javiersanchezbarquero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Brad, I don't know if you saw recently on LinkedIn, someone having an old
box like yours, I remember he took the box and turned it into a vase
table. And many peoples LOL and I replied "Can't live without seeing them,
huh?". Better save the disks' magnets, they are really good!

El vie, 16 dic 2022 a las 10:00, Stephen Landess (<
steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx>)
escribió:

I seem to recall someone from IBM indicating many years ago that 255
times
was the limit. That would be forever, in terms of any of our remaining
lifetimes.
255*70/365 = 48 years

Steve Landess
512-289-0387

Rob wrote:
Didn't IBM figure out some way to catch the reinstall every 70 days
trick?
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