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In <50ij66$9...@news.goodnet.com> jab...@goodnet.com (the Jabberwock) writes:

>Where my dad used to work, they once discovered *all* their backup tapes
>had been erased.  (Naturally, this was immediately after a hard disk
>crash).

>Turns out the tape storage had been moved from one desk to another.  The
>first desk was metal, the second wood.  And when the janitors ran their
>heavy-duty floor waxer (with that hefty electric motor on top) under the
>shelf of the wood desk... guess what!

>(Can you say, "bulk erase?")

Can you say "vectored a common UL"?

Ask your Dad if it specifically happened to him, or if it simply happened
"where he worked".  Probe for specific details and you may find that they
fall apart.

I have a very hard time believing that the motor of a floor waxer is
capable of bulk erasing anything that isn't right on top of it.  Do I need
to remind you that magnetism is a reciprocal of distance squared force?
And oh yeah.. wouldn't a steel desk CONCENTRATE the magnetic lines of force
rather than shield against them?



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