Mac's & Magenets

godtabh

OK came across an old Mac. Its one of them orange eMac's.

Its more or less usless at this stage.

So a friend and I want to see what kind of damage we can do it before it doesnt work full stop.

I want to see how a magnet effects the HD.

What kind of magnet do I need (size etc) and what kind of damage will it do to the HD?

roamer

If you want to damage the hard disk with a magnet you will need to open the casing! AFAIK, the disk won't work anyway if you open it....

And even if you could, whats the point? It would just be most likely that the disk wouldn't even boot so there would be no way to see what happened.

godtabh

We are gona be throwing out the Mac. The only reason we are gona do it is try and mess up the mac as much as possible cause its no good to any one

tba

You require a really big magnet, about 2 kilos.

Drop it from a great height onto the mac

Gordon

Hehe.

But seriously - it can't be used at all? Not even given away to Oxfam or something? Poor wee macciewoo.

Hobbes

roamer wrote:

If you want to damage the hard disk with a magnet you will need to open the casing! AFAIK, the disk won't work anyway if you open it....
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If you have an industrial degausser then the case won't be anything to worry about I've played with a handheld degausser, pretty powerful.

pred racer

tba wrote:

You require a really big magnet, about 2 kilos.

Drop it from a great height onto the mac

LOL:D

hobbes wrote:

If you have an industrial degausser then the case won't be anything to worry about I've played with a handheld degausser, pretty powerful.

So you call yours a handheld degausser..:p

godtabh

tba wrote:

You require a really big magnet, about 2 kilos.

Drop it from a great height onto the mac

I have a slede hamer at home but I want a long painfull slient death for this mac

godtabh

Gordon wrote:

Hehe.

But seriously - it can't be used at all? Not even given away to Oxfam or something? Poor wee macciewoo.

Nah it wouldnt be worth given away.Half the stuff on it doesnt work and its in very poor condition.

And its orange!

tba

kearnsr wrote:

I have a slede hamer at home but I want a long painfull slient death for this mac

It has already had one.

godtabh

tba wrote:

It has already had one.

Its not there yet but getting there!

Ah not just really wanted to see if a magnet could do a computer damage. You see the warnings every where

roamer

What was this Mac originally used for and how old is it?

godtabh

roamer wrote:

What was this Mac originally used for and how old is it?

Dont know. Its a friends. I think its one of the first gens of the coloured eMacs

roamer

Id say its an imac your thinking of, the orange ones don't look that bad either. What OS was it running before it broke. How do you know that it's completely f**ked? It might be just the motherboard or something....

Gordon

Revision B iMac probably:
http://www.lowendmac.com/imacs/imac-c.shtml

godtabh

Gordon wrote:

Revision B iMac probably:
http://www.lowendmac.com/imacs/imac-c.shtml

Thats the one. I thought they where eMacs.

The thing is in rag order. Cracs in case screen etc. Orther parts arent working. Hardly worth while fixing it.

It has what ever orginal os came with it afaik

Sam Vimes

i recommend the same thing i did to an old hard drive. i partitioned it....with an axe very effective in stopping it working