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"textContent": "DriveSavers, a data recovery firm in Novato, California, has a lobby museum called the Museum of Bizarre Diskasters. On display: a laptop burned shut in a house fire (\"like an oyster,\" an engineer said), a smartphone shredded by a snowblower, and a second phone bisected by a monorail. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Inside DriveSavers, where data loss becomes a grief crisis appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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