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Article #7482Re: Air travel and hard drives
From: Alen Shapiro
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1989 10:03
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1989 10:03
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In article <1989Nov7.174155.192@eplrx7.uucp> milbouma@eplrx7.UUCP (Mark Milbourne SCD) writes: >A college is traveling via one of the local >airline services and he wants to take an external hard disk along. >Obviously he won't be passing it through the X-ray machines, but I'm >wondering about the security checks. What will those folks do? I've been doing that for the past few weeks. I ask for a "hand-check" on the disk and from SAN and JFK they always ask me to turn the disk on so they can hear it wirr. From JFK they usually call an airline rep to sign the box through security. I havn't been turned away yet despite the assortment of wires and tools. I expect one day I'll be asked to open up the disk case (4 screws). (3 return trips so far - 4th tomorrow) --alen the Lisa slayer ...alen%shappy@crash.cts.com (a mac+ uucp host - what a concept!!)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ctrsol!sdsu!crash!alen From: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Air travel and hard drives Summary: Out of SAN and JFK - no problem Message-ID: <677@crash.cts.com> Date: 9 Nov 89 10:03:19 GMT References: <974@dutrun.UUCP> <912@etsu.CMI.COM> <1989Nov7.174155.192@eplrx7.uucp> Reply-To: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro) Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA Lines: 17