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From: dejong@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Hans de Jong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Travelling with a laptop
Message-ID: <1290@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 5 May 91 10:27:47 GMT
References: <1991May1.224944.13424@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Organization: Philips Information Systems, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
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This is what I have to add to the information that is already posted by others.

dfinkel@oak.wpi.edu (David Finkel) writes:

>1. What do I do about airport security?  Will the security folks be willing
>to hand inspect it?  I presume the X-rays will be real bad for the disk.
>Will there be a security problem bringing the laptop on the plane at all?

I have never had trouble with X-rays to magnetic disks. I am not really
trying it out and normally get my diskettes hand inspected. The harddisk
almost always goes through X-ray. In Europe it is nowadays hardly possible
to have the PC hand inspected.

Be careful with information on RAM disk. I consistently loose information on
RAM disk of my T1000 when I put it through X-ray at Arlanda Airport in 
Stockholm (Sweden)..

>4. It has a built-in modem, but the line for the modem has a modular
>phone plug.  I've never actually checked, but I'd guess that most hotel
>rooms have their phone wired-in.  Suggestions for connecting the
>modem?

In USA I can normally connect with an RJ11 cable. Often you need a 
skrewdriver to get the telephone cable out. Most problems occur to place
international calls without operator intervention.

In Europe and Japan you can handle most telephones when you have alligator
clips attached to the cable. Germany is extrordinarily tough, because the 
connectors are almost unreacheable. Lately I could get away by having some
wire with me that I could attach. You can leave the wire for the next person
wanting to use a laptop ... .

Be sure to carry the list of Hayes AT commands that your modem supports. (and
understand them).
You will sometimes need to not wait for dial tone, introduce longer pauses,
change make/break ratios for pulse dialing.

I guess I have been to some 25 hotels worldwide where I needed to connect
my PC to the telephone and almost always succeeded so far. 


Good luck!
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