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From: gdelong@cvbnet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Any problems with Portable PCs going through Airport Scanners?
Message-ID: <119@cvbnet.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 13:18:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: cvbnet.119
Posted: Mon Jun  8 13:18:19 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 20:48:47 EDT
References: <150@lithium.UUCP> <1156@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Organization: Computervision, Bedford MA
Lines: 33
Summary: carefull...

In article <1156@ihlpm.ATT.COM>, leder@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Leder) writes:
> In article <150@lithium.UUCP>, andrew@lithium.UUCP (Andrew B Smith) writes:
> > 
> > 
> > Can anyone see any damage an airport scanner 
> > 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.
> 
X-rays potentially can alter (erase) EPROM data, the magnetic field around
the x-ray machine can corrupt disk/tape data.

Request the attendant hand examine your system.
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