Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!van-bc!cynic!ireta!rob From: rob@ireta.cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Prior) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: Bags (was Re: Ack) Message-ID: Date: 28 Jan 91 06:09:27 GMT References: <1991Jan25.154150.5300@grep.co.uk> Organization: Federation of Sentient Planets, Burnaby BC Lines: 22 frank@grep.co.uk (Frank Wales) writes: > I have to say that if you are concerned about the threat of theft, > it's not adviseable to put your machine in the kind of case whose usual > contents are expensive, easy-to-sell equipment like cameras. 1. I never let it out of my sight when it isn't secured somewhere. 2. Most people I associate with at the university (I said _MOST_ not all :) don't have time for photography anyways (hey, we _study_ here :). 3. Cameras aren't _that_ easy to sell here... For the most part, any new camera that would fit into the case I have would have to be pretty cheap or pretty useless... > A better choice is definitely some incongruously cheap and tatty bag as Ray > suggested, or inside some other larger bag, such as a backpack or a briefcase Thanks, but I _like_ having a case that can help my sx sustain a fall from the 4th floor of our residences to the (hard packed and frozen) ground below with absolutely _no_ damage... > Frank Wales, Grep Limited, [frank@grep.co.uk<->uunet!grep!frank] > Kirkfields Business Centre, Kirk Lane, LEEDS, UK, LS19 7LX. (+44) 532 500303