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From: dejong@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Hans de Jong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Airport hassle with laptops?
Message-ID: <1022@ssp2.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 15 Dec 90 01:47:37 GMT
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I regularly carry a laptop with my on my travels. This is a T1000 or T1200. To
prevent any problems, I normally try to get PC and diskettes hand inspected.
In USA and Canada, security personnel will do so. In Europe, they sometimes
want to inspect the diskettes by hand, but the PC must always go through 
X-ray. The only times I experienced problems is at Stockholm Arlanda Airport,
where the X-ray consistently damages the contents of the battery backup-ed 
RAM disk of the T1000.

Apart from that, the greatest delays on airports are caused by using carnets 
which my company officially says are needed. Especially at US airports when
leaving the country it is hardly possible at all to find customs who can 
sign the carnet.

A severe inconvenience using laptops arises when trying to use a modem.
Non-standardized telephone plugs, fixed wired telephones, different tones, 
pulse ratios, impossibility to dial international numbers in certain US hotels
without operator, etc.

Hans de Jong
telephone plugs in various countries,