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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac as airline hand baggage
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Date: 31 Jul 89 19:02:23 GMT
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In article <17545.24D22F3D@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>,
	Adam.Frix@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:

> ... at Ohio State, all the libraries are equipped
> with a security device that one must walk through ...

Most "walk-through" security devices / metal detectors use short high-energy
magnetic pulses.  The library ones look for the characteristic signature
of a short thin magnet (glued into the book), and airport weapon detectors
look for a piece of ferrous metal about as big as a gun.  These things are
bad for disks, in a big way.  As an aside, I once walked through the security
gate at Ohio State's engineering library while listening to my Walkman...
Yow!  I thought I'd been shot :-).

The X-ray machine shouldn't do anything to media or drives, although most
airport personnel that I've seen are fairly used to the idea of non-explosive
media by now :-), and will carry it around for you.

On the plus side, the demagnetizing gadgets in libraries are *great* for
erasing disks.  That is, of course, if you can convince the librarian to
run your disk across one of them :-)...

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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