[wplug] degaussing tapes and hard drives

[Drew from Zhrodague]

> would imagine using any old degausser.  In fact, I remember back when I
> worked at the radio station in college, we had a degausser that was
> basically an electromagnet with a plug.  Plug it in, wave it near a 1/4"
> tape for 30 seconds, then slowly pull it away.

 	My first couple of days at Pittsburgh OnLine, my job was to peel 
off the labels of the AOL disks, bulk-erase them, and put the ancient 
Trumpet Winsock with our installer on it. I learned that writing the data 
onto the disks twice would make fewer of them get returned.

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