Re: [ME] Re: Crippled US EP-3

[Mike Fortey <forteymj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Unfortunately, burning doesn't work.  

It certainly made us feel good though. There's nothing
more satisfying that totally trashing the kit that
you've had to babysit for several years. I would also
argue that burning datatapes makes them pretty
useless. Melted circutboards are also of little use.
...And it's what the books told us to do =)

[I'd defy anyone to read data of drives that had be
demagnatised, hit with a hammer wielded by a cheerful
person and then burned.]

Last Cray that I saw 'decommissioned' involved putting
it on a truck, taking it into the desert, hitting
delicate parts of it gleefully with sledgehammers and
then driving a bulldozer over the bits a few times
before burying it. Someone even videoed it for home
entertainment. Would have been a lot more fun with
beer, though.

Back to thermite grenades briefly... the reaction
melts iron oxide rather well (that's exactly what a
thermite reaction is), I think that it burns at around
2000C-ish

Mike

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