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From: sam@neoucom.UUCP (Scott A. Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Air travel and hard drives
Message-ID: <1833@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 89 14:00:54 GMT
References: <974@dutrun.UUCP> <912@etsu.CMI.COM>
Reply-To: sam@neoucom.UUCP (Scott A. Mason)
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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In article <912@etsu.CMI.COM> dave@etsu.cmi.com.UUCP (David Halonen) writes:
>...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?

The airports don't seem to be consistent in this area.  From my recent 
travels (Mac SE taken as carry-on luggage), the security seems to be at
the discretion of the baggage-checker.  All airports insisted that I run
my Mac (with external hard drive) through the X-ray machine.  I
specifically asked for a hand-check, but was denied and was told that
unless I complied with their wishes, the Mac could not go on the plane.
Furthermore, at one airport, not only did I have to run it through the
machine, but I had to assemble the Mac and turn it on as well.

On a good note, no damage seems to have been done by the dreaded X-ray
machines.  Just goes to show you how a couple of idiots (i.e. people who
feel the need to put bombs on airplanes...) can screw things up for the
rest of us.

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