Scrapping hardware to get it off the books (RE: Is it a Lisa or Mac XL?!)

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Nov 29 16:25:48 2001

> I doubt it. There may be very few contracts that require this sort of
> thing, but honestly, if the company scrapping the equipment was that worried
> about it, they'd scrap it themselves. I have heard that NSA does this, and
> that further they (to paraphrase) "slag their disks and post armed guards
> around the slag."

it's true; a friend has a CDC 1700, formerly NSA property...
and nothing that could hold software was part of the deal
(although I think he got to keep the core).

-dq
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