M.A. Hochberg’s Technology for Teaching

Making technology easier for people

What is inside the disk drive of your student computers?

Things found in a disk drive

So far this year, I have removed an index card, two dollar bills, and a green World Class Citizen ticket from the disk drives of student computer. I wonder how many drives have things in them that I don’t even know about!

I was able to retrieve two of the items with stamp tongs, long tweezers with flat spatula tips, similar to the ones below. Mine are thinner and fit better into the drive.

Stamp Tongs

R Lerdsuwa, . “Stamp tongs.” photograph. Stamp Tongs – Wiki Media.1 June 2009 <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_tongs.jpg>.

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