Re: floppy data and airport x-rays

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From: Alex Gray
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 00:00

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It would take an unfeasibly high x-ray dose to damage a floppy disk.
However...

X-ray machines tend also to contain large focusing magnets or
electromagnetic coils of one sort or another, and these are a more
significant hazard to a disk. Make sure you don't pack disks near the outer
surface of a bag where they could get very close to the edges of the X-ray
tunnel. As long as they stay away from the edge, they are also very unlikely
to encounter any significant magnetic fields.

--
Alex Gray
Editor Corel User magazine
editor@coreluser.com
http://www.enterprise.net/cvu
Duncan W Kennedy wrote in message ...
>I have to take 250 floppies by internal air tomorrow.  The contain
>important presentation material.
>
>Anyone tell me, please if they are safe from x-rays at (UK) airports?
>
>--
>Duncan W Kennedy
>Otterson Business Graphics
>http://www.otterson.demon.co.uk/
>

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Subject: Re: floppy data and airport x-rays
Date: 1998/05/13
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