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From: leder@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Leder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Any problems with Portable PCs going through Airport Scanners?
Message-ID: <1156@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 11:37:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpm.1156
Posted: Wed Jun  3 11:37:00 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jun-87 05:15:57 EDT
References: <150@lithium.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Summary: I take out the disks.

In article <150@lithium.UUCP>, andrew@lithium.UUCP (Andrew B Smith) writes:
> 
> 
> Can anyone see any damage an airport scanner (the thing your bags go through)
> might have on a portable computer (Toshiba/NEC style) ?
> 
I have a NEC which has been processed by x-ray machines without any
problems, but I always remove the diskettes and hand them to the attendant
instead of subjecting them to the fields of the motors or the ESD from the
belts.

Bob Leder