CD Shredder

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> writes:

 >> So we're a bunch of Hardware/Software conservationists and up to
 >> 10% of us are dedicated to destroying old software on CDs.

 Fred> If you were to build a device to scan a stationary piece of CD,
 Fred> rather than trying to spin it, how much of the data could be
 Fred> recovered from a disk with a hole drilled through it, or broken
 Fred> in half?

Broken in half -- probably all of it, because the crack is like a
scratch and the ECC handles that.  Hole -- possibly all of it, if the
hole isn't too large.

     paul