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From: nfs@cs.Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Airport hassle with laptops?
Message-ID: <5237@rossignol.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 11 Dec 90 16:08:48 GMT
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In article <1990Dec10.180614.36642@eagle.wesleyan.edu> asd_mar@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>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.  

Security staff are very understanding, especially now that they see these
every day.  You'll have to turn the machine on and show that it boots, just
to relieve them of the fear that the guts have been replaced by a bomb.