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From: hrs1@cbnewsi.att.com (herman.r.silbiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Airport hassle with laptops?
Summary: laptops and security
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.195728.2909@cbnewsi.att.com>
Date: 15 Dec 90 19:57:28 GMT
References: <1990Dec10.180614.36642@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <2006@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <2006@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>, userAKDU@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Al Dunbar) writes:
>  
> 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.

I have taken my laptop all over the worls, sometimes in my carry on garment
bag, and sometimes checked in my suitcase.  It must have been x rayed some 50
times, which does not seem to have affected it at all.

Once,in Berlin, where I had checked it in my suitcase, was I called to open my
suitcase and show that it worked.  This shows that they really do x ray 
suitcases on international flights.

Herman Silbiger
hsilbiger@attmail.com