Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA!Al_Dunbar
From: userAKDU@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Al Dunbar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Airport hassle with laptops?
Message-ID: <2006@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 12 Dec 90 04:00:30 GMT
References: <1990Dec10.180614.36642@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Organization: MTS Univ of Alberta
Lines: 21

In article <1990Dec10.180614.36642@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, asd_mar@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>Hi.
>
>I'm planning on taking my laptop home over winter break, and am wondering if
>the airport security personnel are likely to give me a hassle about x-raying
>it.
>
>I'm flying out of La Guardia, if you know about that airport specifically.  I'd
>appreciate any comments; thanks.
 
I have been told that (at least in some Canadian airports), you
may be asked to demonstrate that a laptop works before boarding.
(i.e. don't pack the power cord in your suitcase if it isn't
battery powered). I have yet to be asked to submit a computer to
the abuse of an xray machine.
 
-------------------+-------------------------------------------
Al Dunbar          |
Edmonton, Alberta  |  "this mind left intentionally blank"
CANADA             |          - Manuel Writer
-------------------+-------------------------------------------