Friedland uses the same machine to shred hard drives as it does to shred paper. Eric Weston On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 15:25 -0500, David McFarlane wrote: > Don, > > >I happen to know the answer for hard drives. Drives that the staff at > >Surplus can't securely wipe - for whatever reason - go to a company that > >shreds them. > > Just to satisfy my curiosity... What exactly, in concrete terms, > does "shred" mean here? I have had trouble with that in the past, > since that term has both figurative and literal senses. > > Thanks, > -- dkm > > --- > David McFarlane, Systems Designer > Dept. Psychology, Michigan State University > [log in to unmask] www.msu.edu/~mcfarla9 > Voice: (517) 353-0799 Fax: (517) 353-1652