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In article <10938@polya.Stanford.EDU> kaufman@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes:
>In article <420009@hpbbm.HP.COM> bwolf@hpbbm.HP.COM (Bryan Wolf) writes:
>
>>Caveat regarding your data:   NEVER (EVER EVER!) put your
>>floppies through the X-ray thingie you have to walk through at
>>security;...
>
>This has GOT to be on the way to becomming a new Urban Legend.  First, there
>are no X-rays emitted by the metal detector set ...

Ummmmmm.  The walk through metal detector is set off by **any** object
that unbalances a circulating current.  From the part of E&M that I didn't
sleep through, that implies that there's a magnetic field somewhere
nearby. The X-rays **from the hand baggage inspection device** may not
be a problem (except for your unexposed film) but the belt motors
definately generate electrical fields (can you say, "don't put any disks
on the _left_ side of your Mac?").  I took a a trip in April with some of
my floppies in my briefcase instead of in the camera bag and ended up with
"This disk is unreadable ...."

Caveat traveller ...

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