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From: nather@ut-emx.uucp (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Airport hassle with laptops?
Message-ID: <41315@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 13 Dec 90 16:32:21 GMT
References: <1990Dec10.180614.36642@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <2006@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
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In article <2006@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>, userAKDU@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Al Dunbar) writes:
> 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.
> I have yet to be asked to submit a computer to
> the abuse of an xray machine.

As part of our routine operation of the "Whole Earth Telescope" project we
travel all over the world carrying laptops through airports.  We have tried
numerous approaches (e.g. "...you'll want to look at this ..." or "...this
is a computer; want to see it work?") but have found the simplest and
fastest is to put the laptop through the X-ray machine.  No hassle, no
argument, no dismemberment, no abuse, no damage.
-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin