Interesting sales call

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

A sales guy dropped by here--a personal cold call, of all things.  And
when he didn't get in to see one of us left something--a hard drive
completely beat to hell in a plastic bag with his business card.

My question was whether this meant "We can even recover data from a
drive in this condition," or "We can do this to all your cast-off hard
drives, and no one can ever recover data from them," or "Pay us, or
we'll come in and do this to all your hard drives."

Turns out the least interesting but least scary.  They do
"Environmentally Responsible Asset Disposition".


Stuart Biggerstaff
Systems Technician
Linda Hall Library of Science Engineering & Technology
5109 Cherry St.
Kansas City, Missouri 64110-2498

Phone:	(816) 926-8748
	(800) 662-1545 x748
FAX:	(816) 926-8790
URL:	www.lindahall.org