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How to Remove Hard Drive from Really Old Computer

I have an very old AT&T Globalyst 375T PC from 1995.  I held on to it over
the years because I wanted to take the hard drive out as it contained
confidential information.  Well, today I finally decided to do it.

Got the case off, disconnected the cable and the power cord from the hard
drive and looked for the screws that connected the hard drive to the box
containing it that was affixed to the case.  And I looked and I looked.
Although the hard drive had screws in it, they weren't the screws connecting
the hard drive to the box.   Although the drive and the box were firmly
affixed to the frame, no screws were doing the job.

Then I saw what looked like metal clips, more like wings that might be
holding the box in place.  So I tried to manipulate this clips/wings,
pushing and pulling gently but it was firm.  Then I though that the box
containing the hard drive would slip out.  No that didn't work.

I never seen a hard drive affixed this way before.  The computer does not
have ethernet, usb capability or direct cable capability.  The only way I am
going to be able to get the info off the hard drive is to either burn some
CD's or take another computer and hook its cables up to the old computer to
read the hard drive.  All a pain in the butt.

So anybody remember anything about this kind of construction and tell me how
to unfasten the hard drive.  I thought there was a chance somebody would
know..

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