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From: hildum@iris.ucdavis.edu (Eric Hildum)
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Subject: Re: Erasing magnetic media
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Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 21:10:15 EST
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I believe that the Curie point for most commonly used media is 200
Celsuis - which should be hot enough to destroy the mylar of tapes or
floppies. As for hard disks, once it is no longer magnetic, you will
have a hard time writing new data onto it, won't you?

						Eric