Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix5.panix.com!wb8foz From: David Lesher Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: the takeover of the US embassy, was: Why the Soviet computer failed Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 22:48:51 -0000 (UTC) Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers - Beltway Annex Message-ID: References: <6dec26a7-b033-409c-ae5f-47e8f600c9fdn@googlegroups.com> <105451250.682535150.845961.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <20220819002100.9ee9342968416d090a2d0727@eircom.net> <1380035000.682570583.203227.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 22:48:51 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix5.panix.com:166.84.1.5"; logging-data="8002"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:222117 D.J. writes: >>>>> The staff used a shredder that cut them into strips, instead of >>>>> confetti. The Iranians put them back together. ... >The likely bought the strip shredder as a cost saving.... and it was a >bad decision. Hardly. There was few if any cross-cut shredders before that debacle. And they are not without issues. They work by cutting the paper into strips, then yanking the strips to TEAR the ribbons. That distorts the paper and what's printed on it to make matching up pieces impossible. But the shredders have thin cutters rather like transformer cores; a staple can damage them, a paper-clip is SURE to. The better gadget is the SEM Model 22 Disintegrator. It's sorta like a reel lawn mower on steroids. -- A host is a host from coast to coast...............wb8foz@panix.com & no one will talk to a host that's close.......................... Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433