NEC "Advanced Personal Computer"? & Secure data removal

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "David" == David Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> writes:

 David> ... Which brings up another thought. how would one go
 David> about making sure that data is securely wiped from a drive of
 David> a classic machine, without physically destroying it? So it
 David> could be donated & reused?

Repeat for each disk:
       dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<harddrive> bs=64k
or equivalent on whatever OS runs on the machine.  Beware of the DOS
"format" utility, which typically doesn't do a sufficient job.  My
inclination is to boot some suitable Unix and use that.

See also http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/

    paul