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From: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Air travel and hard drives
Message-ID: <737@crash.cts.com>
Date: 20 Nov 89 00:39:25 GMT
References: <974@dutrun.UUCP> <912@etsu.CMI.COM> <1989Nov7.174155.192@eplrx7.uucp> <677@crash.cts.com> <1989Nov15.190945.22443@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Reply-To: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro)
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In article <1989Nov15.190945.22443@ccu.umanitoba.ca> ens@ccu.UManitoba.CA () writes:
>I frequently send my hard disk the through airline X-ray security system.
>Disks are magnetic media; X-rays cause no damage.

Now there's a question I've been wanting an answer to for a long time
and it's related to the one answered above. Not do X-Rays cause magnetic
media any harm but do X-rays cause electronic circuitry any harm. From
"knock-on-protons" to surface static discharges. Any physicists out there?
What about weather radar in the nose cones of certain small commuter
airliners right next to the forward baggage compartment!!.

--alen the Lisa slayer (it's a long story)