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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Laptops on international flights??????
Summary: what about pocket devices?
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.211958.7603@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 23 Jan 91 21:19:58 GMT
References: <380.279c6c72@zodiac.rutgers.edu> <2122@travis.csd.harris.com>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <2122@travis.csd.harris.com> leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds) writes:
>
>Recently (1 or 2 nights ago on the news) there was a mention that in (most of) 
>Europe, due to the current crisis, NO electrical appliances with be allowed 
>onto a plane.  
>
>This includes cpus, hairdryers, electric razors, etc., etc.  Essentially 
>they will be placed into an de-pressurized chamber to make sure that they 
>will not trigger any explosive device (that would be sensitive to air 
>pressure changes).  

Yikes!  Anyone have clarification on pocket-sized devices like
organizers and other hand-held computers, calculators, etc.?  After
loading all thos addresses into my trusty BOSS and Portfolio, do I have
to go back to paper copies?

Come to think of it, paper <- papyrus <- dangerous countries!  Better
memorize everything.

-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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