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From: cdl@mplvax.nosc.MIL (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Erasing magnetic media
Message-ID: <692@mplvax.nosc.MIL>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 00:42:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 12 00:42:40 1987
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In article <456@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> hildum@iris.UUCP (Eric Hildum) writes:

+I believe that the Curie point for most commonly used media is 200
+Celsius - 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?

Cool it!!


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	carl lowenstein		marine physical lab	u.c. san diego
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