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01-19-2003, 11:24 PM

Lotto

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Join Date: Aug 2006

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Let this be a lesson to ya!

In response to this article on ZDNet about cleaning your hard drives before getting rid of them:

Old hard drives yield data bonanza
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-980824.html

Here's a posted story we just might need to remember this time of year when we are trading up our ppc's.....

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Old PDAs do the same
Name: Nigel Johnstone
Posted At: 07:11 GMT 01/16/2003

I got a Rex6000 (a micro PDA) after it was discontinued. The one I got had been returned to the store by its previous owner.

The guy had obviously been using it, tried to upgrade the OS. Theres a tempting utility included in the package to do it - but no OS image available to do the upgrade.
If you start the upgrade without the OS image you cannot get back to a working PDA.

Then he reset it so nobody knew and took it back to the store for a refund.

I found the OS image on the internet (thank you abandonware copyright rules). I download the image from the internet and upgraded it.

Suddenly I have his PDA stuff, nothing interesting, just a porn site password or two. He was a computer guy for a telecoms company (his employer's name and his network login there too), wonder if he reads Zdnet?"

Sumptin' ta think about, eh?

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