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Article #39990Re: Hard drives and airport x-rays, bad??
From: Ace Swerling
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1989 18:02
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1989 18:02
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In article <211@moegate.UUCP> soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) writes: >and at least one (Detroit, if I remember correctly) gives you a simple choice, >put everything through the x-ray or turn around and go home, they will >show you (but not give you a copy for use as evidence in a suit if that >became necessary) a printed form which says the x-ray machine won't hurt >computers. >-- >Norman Soley - The Communications Guy - Ontario Ministry of the Environment I've taken my Mac SE through security at the Detroit airport several times. Each time they asked me what was in the bag. I opened it up, and told them it was a computer. They looked at it and let me go. I had floppies all over the place so maybe they were more inclined to believe me. I also look like the typical all-american college student so maybe that helped too, but I didn't have any hassles. -Ace
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!caen.engin.umich.edu!swerling From: swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hard drives and airport x-rays, bad?? Message-ID: <424c19bd.17b76@puffin.engin.umich.edu> Date: 28 Mar 89 18:02:00 GMT References: <QY9iCIy00WAKM12m5c@andrew.cmu.edu> <211@moegate.UUCP> Reply-To: swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling) Organization: University of Michigan Engineering Lines: 17