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Article #39976Re: Hard drives and airport x-rays, bad??
From: Norman S. Soley
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1989 15:59
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1989 15:59
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In article <QY9iCIy00WAKM12m5c@andrew.cmu.edu> wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) writes:
>Even if they insist, refuse to do it... I know of people who have lost both
>floppies and hard drives to the x-ray machines. Whether or not it was the
>x-rays, or the magnetic fields from the belt motors is unknown.
>
>I have run the gauntlet of airport security several times-- some are cool about
>it, some are a pain in the ass.
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
Until the next maps go out: moegate!soley@ontenv.UUCP
if you roll your own: uunet!{attcan!ncrcan|mnetor!ontmoh}!ontenv!moegate!soley
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!moegate!soley From: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hard drives and airport x-rays, bad?? Message-ID: <211@moegate.UUCP> Date: 26 Mar 89 15:59:32 GMT References: <QY9iCIy00WAKM12m5c@andrew.cmu.edu> Reply-To: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment Lines: 18