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At one time I had three vintage computers: a Data General Nova 1200
($40,000 with 512kbyte hard disk), a home-made microprocessor based thing
which I seem to recall was a PDP-8 clone, and a very nice PDP-11. These
were all from my work. They were in storage ... but unknown to me,
our University sent out the old computer Nazis to collect and throw
away all old computers on the grounds that sensitive data might be on
hard drives (even ones that didn't have them!) and when I went
to get them, they were gone. They just did it, no questions asked.
(To be sure, ones in offices were asked about).
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