Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!nntp.hut.fi!kiravuo From: kiravuo@hila.hut.fi (Timo Kiravuo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: Using laptops on airplanes Message-ID: Date: 12 Dec 90 23:53:33 GMT References: <160670@kean.ucs.mun.ca> <36620@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Computing Center Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk's message of 10 Dec 90 15:21:59 GMT In article ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry Thompson) writes: >With respect, and I realise you probably have no reason to know about >this, you don't know how lucky you are. Hand checked only? >Impossible in any European airport I've been through in two years. Try Finland some day. We don't really have any airport security at all. Of course we don't have any terrorists in the first place anyway... 1/2 :-) About X-ray machines. Just keep in mind that the problem usually is not the X-rays, but the big magnets used to control those rays. I got my Toshiba 1000 LE laptop yesterday. So far I have not found anything bad with it, maybe in week or two I will notice the dark sides, too. Then I'll try to report here. Currently it is 0.50 o'clock, I am sitting in bed drinking beer after sauna, with my Toshiba in lap and with a 9600 bps modem connection. I don't know if this is the reason why the university bought me this machine, but I like this. -- Timo Kiravuo, kiravuo@hut.fi Helsinki University of Technology, Computer Center, Finland