Before. The random bits of hardware about to meet their maker (or at least, a heavy blunt instrument) are: An old mother board, some SIMM memory modules, an hard drive and a DAT drive. As you can see from this picture, he cheated slightly be using a screwdriver for some of it.

A motherboard is sent to the great bit-bucket in the sky. In case you were wondering, the tool being used here is an 8 foot length of scaffolding pole. Russ is even less subtle than us. Now there's as scary prospect.

The same tool being applied to the delicate task of removing some of the ICs from the motherboard. The SIMMs are still intact, though...

...but not for long

Inside a hard drive. Unlike us, Russ used a screwdriver to remove the top of the case. We used a hammer. Amazingly enough, the platters are still intact at this point. I don't think this lasted very long, though.

A DAT drive gets the scaffold pole treatment

I think it's broken.

Conclusive proof that hitting DAT drives repeatedly with a large chunk of metal is bad for them.