Re: The moment the willing suspension of disbelief died

In article <6uecnQ7gArT1HsTeUSdV9g@xxxxxxx>,
John Bauman <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Well, hard drives have additional metal around them that the rest of the
>electronics don't (at least a metal lid, if nothing else). The electronics
>in them are also probably made with a larger process then the CPU and RAM
>(though I'm not certain of that). Of course, what with the magnetic media
>and all, there still could easily be a problem. I guess that means that this
>is now very unlikely instead of utterly implausible.

It'd be more plausible if the guy also found an identical hard
drive and had to swap the external circuit board on the drive.
I don't think EMP is going to necessarily have such a huge
effect on the magnetic media itself, but all electronics is at
risk. The electronics inside the closed metal disk drive case
would be at somewhat less risk.

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