[ale] Disk laundry and nominal value of old computer

[johnmills at speakeasy.net (John Mills)]

ALErs -

I want to arrange friends' donation of an old computer now running WinNT:
350MHz PII 'ACER', 64MBy 100MHz SDRAM, 6 GBy HDD, 40x CDROM, 8MBy AGP
video, mouse and keyboard, PCI sound, built-in NIC, 15" SVGA monitor.

I believe we have the WinNT installation CD(s).

I need two pieces of information:

1. What would be a reasonable value for this box, as a tax-deductible 
   donation, and

2. Is there a simple, free tool (other than Linux 'fdisk' &8-)* I can use 
   to wipe these folks' files off the HD? (Reasonable 'commercial 
   quality', not to defeat any of the three-letter agencies.) Does one of 
   the HDD manufacturers give away such a thing?

* It may get Linux to offer services on a school's LAN, but not yet.

TIA.

 John Mills
 john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu

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