Looks like NASA has gotten rid of some Amiga stuff.

[AmigaEd]

As to the disks, one of my day-to-day jobs was erasing them - four passes with blanking software. I did it to everything from SGI SCSI HDs down to dinky little 3gb IDE drives.

That sure doesn't sound like the glamorous NASA job that I envisionsed!

I'd rather give them four passes with a rocket assisted sledge hammer or a pocket particle accellerator. :flame:

Regards,
AmigaEd

[Tomas]

As for concerns about the hard drives, they are so old that no one cares or the data was wiped prior to placement in storage (pretty common practice).

Atleast one of the a2500 had a nasa sticker saying "2005", so i guess they havent been idle for that long..
http://i8.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/7b/85/c6b8_1_sbl.JPG

[Ral-Clan]

Atleast one of the a2500 had a nasa sticker saying "2005", so i guess they havent been idle for that long..

Yeah, but notice those stickers say NASA 2005 INVENTORY.  That was probably the last inventory they took of all the old stored gear in order to sell it as a lot to the surplus company (that's now selling it on Ebay).

[_ThEcRoW]

@sirinferno
How did you add that image as your sig sirinferno?

[B00tDisk]

AmigaEd wrote:

As to the disks, one of my day-to-day jobs was erasing them - four passes with blanking software. I did it to everything from SGI SCSI HDs down to dinky little 3gb IDE drives.

That sure doesn't sound like the glamorous NASA job that I envisionsed!

I'd rather give them four passes with a rocket assisted sledge hammer or a pocket particle accellerator. :flame:

Regards,
AmigaEd

Along with the other more, ahem, glamorous things I did PC gruntwork was part and parcel of the whole deal.

Besides they paid me $40.00/hr to do it so if they'd asked me to work in the cafeteria all day I'd have done so.

[sir_inferno]

_ThEcRoW wrote:
@sirinferno
How did you add that image as your sig sirinferno?

just bunged [ img ]http://monkey.com/roooostaaaa.jpg[ /img ] in the signature space

[motrucker]

sir_inferno wrote:
how did that guy get a hold of so many....


and isn't it a tad bizaare that nasa would let _hard drives_ loose? i mean...surely something on them is of value to someone...

A good friend in Florida bought several ex-NASA A2000s with GVP 030 cards, and hard drives that had only been quick formatted!!??
NASA must have bought a huge number of Amigas through the years.