That’s why you should overwrite everything with zeros. Seven times.
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Chromebook anyone?
- Thread starter Mad Mike
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Thermite is faster.
But makes HDDs/SSDs slightly unusable.
Just to be clear - SSDs aren't too difficult to securely erase. They generally have a built-in function for this, however triggering it can be a little awkward. Technically, HDDs aren't necessarily difficult to erase either, but you need to budget a few hours for the operation to finish.
My old 20MB Seagate Hard Drive was super-easy to securely erase.
Just forget to run PARK.EXE to park the heads one time before shutting down your PC XT. Then give the box a little thump on the side and voila... scratched platters... unrecoverable data.
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Just forget to run PARK.EXE to park the heads one time before shutting down your PC XT. Then give the box a little thump on the side and voila... scratched platters... unrecoverable data.
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I am glad that auto-parking heads were invented relatively quickly! I think my own 20MB MFM drive had that feature. Also, technically some of that data would still be recoverable in a lab. You have to significantly deform the platters to make data unrecoverable to 98% of "adversaries"
I’m still amazed that tech just gets better and cheaper if you stay about 2-3yrs behind the curve . We always bought thinkpads and at business class they were 3k ea. we now buy HP or Lenovo with the same spec to run our in house programs for $800 bucks .
I bought a couple generic tablets to use as repeater displays 10” tablets for $99 at a tech clearance store .
Smart tvs at 65 “ are about the same price I paid 15 yrs ago for 40” lcd tv
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I bought a couple generic tablets to use as repeater displays 10” tablets for $99 at a tech clearance store .
Smart tvs at 65 “ are about the same price I paid 15 yrs ago for 40” lcd tv
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I remember back in '98 i was at a gfs house and she asked if i wanted to watch Blade on DVD, i was like HELL YES. First time i watched a DVD, walk into her dads space and he had a 40"+ Plasma TV on the wall, i think he told me it was 10k back then.
On the plus side, you save money on a space heater for that room. Those old plasmas pumped out a ton of heat.
Haha, that's my like my PCs i built in the early-mid 2000s. I was always turning the heat down in the house and my parents were furious..but my room was an oven.
We still use a 42 Panasonic plasma as our TV built into the wall so it stays until it dies. Not like it gets used anyway.
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Still have my 54" Viera. They were the last plasma TV produced/sold. Garage TV now.
50" Toshiba plasma. Weighs a thousand pounds and can heat my basement but what a picture !!!!
Last tube TV I owned was a 36". Thing weighed close to 250 lbs. 
Current LED TV is twice the size and weighs maybe 50 lbs...
Amazing.
Current LED TV is twice the size and weighs maybe 50 lbs...
Amazing.
I threw out all my tube tv's. Regretting that decision now. I can't play duck hunt without one. I used to use commodore monitors for game systems. They went with the boxes of commodore gear to somebody that cared.Back in '03 I had a Toshiba 34HF64 Widescreen CRT HD Monitor. Only 156 lbs. Great picture, though, Highly rated. First thing I watched on it was the Masters at Augusta National. Thought to myself if there was a heaven, that's what it would look like.
LOL. FWIW you can totally factory reset a Chromebook with usually just a certain key combination on startup. Boom, completely and fully back to it's OEM OS install like it just came out of the box again.
Oldschook geeks, unite! My first hard drive was a 40 meg SCSI drive on a Commodore 64 lol. It was a pricy upgrade from the 20 meg.
We had an old RCA 50" widescreen projection TV from around 2002 that just wouldn't die - it was actually 1080 HD which at the time was pretty freakin awesome, and widescreen was the new hotness as well. I remember we had Starchoice satellite at the time and I had to have a separate piggybacked HD decoder box to be able to tune the HD channels, of which there was only about 5 or 6 at the time. The first 2 or 3 years we owned it most stuff still displayed in reverse-letterbox (black bars on both sides) as most broadcast TV wasn't in widescreen yet.
When it finally did die around 2017 we bought an LG 56" Plasma. Great picture, but it was only 1080 as well. I wanted 4K, and also didn't want the heat anymore, so we bought this in November '21.
A year and a half later it still looks big on the wall in the living room. And we love it lol. Weighs a ton and is awkward as hell to take on and off the wall if you need to change a plug or something, but meh...that's not often.
(No, it didn't fit in the Volt. Had to have a friend pick it up for us in their truck.)
Basement TV is a Vizio 1080p backlit LCD ~2010. Won't die. Looks ok. Obviously eclipsed by newer TV's. I am too cheap to throw out a working TV to replace with another one.
As for plug awkwardness, I am surprised more TV's don't follow a model similar to the Frame TV's. One small umbilical cord between interface box and TV. The Frame expects you to put the interface box remote from the TV, but it wouldn't be hard to include clips/magnets to allow you to attach it to the back of the TV and still easily pull it out if you needed to change something.
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