Re: floppy data and airport x-rays

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From: Bob Cousins
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:00

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In <35572984.7A6A@datarecover.com>, Bill R. King wrote:

>X-rays at the exposure levels that you will encounter in airport
>screening devices have no effect whatsoever on the magnetic properties
>of magnetic media.

For interest, what level of X-rays would be required to cause a problem, and
where could that level be found?

-- 
Bob Cousins, Software Engineer.
Home page at http://www.lintilla.demon.co.uk/

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