<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Here is what you should do with them<br></div>Find some good torx screw driver and open the disk. The goods inside are<br></div>1. 3-4 magnetic surface disks that are metal but look like slightly darkened mirrors. They work wonderfully as a geek's coaster.<br></div>2. Extremely high quality aluminum spacer rings. I made them into earrings for the girlfriend (she's a software dev.). Nobody else even comes close to having something similar.<br></div>3. A pair of rare earth magnets that are horrifyingly strong. Use them for paper clips or pins, on the fridge etc. Take care because they are somewhat fragile compared to how strong they are. i.e. if you let them snap into each other at a distance they will break. They also work really well when stuck to the shaft of a screwdriver to give it a "real" magnetic tip. Another cool thing is that those lovely magnets have a piece of metal they are glued to which somehow "shields" the magnetic field. i.e. they will stick to metals directly, but if you flip them around, that shield will make them behave like a rusty nail. Cool to show off.<br></div>4. On the PCB you can normally find a few cool looking chip that you can make into pendants by soldering a tiny loop to their legs. Kinda like this <a href="http://img.loveitsomuch.com/uploads/201211/17/up/upcycled%20computer%20chip%20necklace%20in%20marbled%20blues-t77141.jpg">http://img.loveitsomuch.com/uploads/201211/17/up/upcycled%20computer%20chip%20necklace%20in%20marbled%20blues-t77141.jpg</a> I also made one of those for the girlfriend and she wears it all the time.<br><br></div>I'm suggesting this coz the ~1-2GB disks are not worth the hassle of using them when you can get a $3 USB flash of the same capacity, 1/100 of the size and the power and 100 times the reliability.<br><br></div><div>Hope that was useful :)<br></div><div><br></div>Andrew<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Murray Strome <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wmstrome@shaw.ca" target="_blank">wmstrome@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 14-12-02 06:42 AM, Murray Strome wrote:<br>
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Maxtor 7850AV IDE DRIVE<br>
Formatted capacity: ........................ 853,995,520 Bytes<br>
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or Fujitsu MPA3026AT IDE DRIVE<br>
Capacity: 2.6 GB<br>
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I can hardly remember when such small drives existed. However, if anyone has a use for them, I can leave them at the BB&C Club House.<br>
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Murray<br>
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