[rescue] Re: nuking from orbit

[Stuart E. Johnson]

***SIGH***

There's some old Dataproducts CMI Datastore 33 core stacks sitting up at the
local Lockheed-Martin surplus store that they won't sell to us as
paperweights. Guess that data is critical.

I also had to sign a statement that I wouldn't export my CRAY-2 memory
module to any countries on the State Department's proscribed exports list
before they'd give me one (although it was DRAM - doubt that it retained
anything).  Good 'ol SN2001; we tried to rescue her, but the corporate
lawyers objected on national security grounds. And a colleague had
determined that he could power the thing with just 3 wind-driven
generators... She was scrapped with extreme predjudice %^P.
--
   -Stuart Johnson

> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:10:44 -0500
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> From: Scott Newell <newell at cei.net>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: nuking from orbit
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
> Thermite, anyone?  :-)
>
> What about data retention in non-volatile ram (some disk caches), ordinary
> SRAM, or even (possibly?) DRAM?  I've had SRAM retain data through short
> power cycles before.  Do CPUs wipe the on-chip I&D caches before executing
> code?
>
>
> newell