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From: demillo@europa.UUCP (robert demillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Do You Protect Portables/Disks in Air Travel?
Message-ID: <114@europa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 18:05:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: europa.114
Posted: Tue Aug 11 18:05:44 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 12:10:40 EDT
References: <862@dasys1.UUCP> <695@uhccux.UUCP> <19@splut.UUCP>
Reply-To: demillo@europa.UUCP (robert demillo)
Organization: Brown University - Planetary Science Group
Lines: 39
Keywords: portables disks x-ray metal detector

In article <19@splut.UUCP> jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) writes:
>In article <695@uhccux.UUCP>, todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) writes:
>> 
>> I don't have a hard disk in my laptop (unfortunately).  I adopted a
>> very conservative approach some years ago.  I simply ask the security
>> people to hand check my computer and disks.  I have never had any of
>> them refuse this request.
>
>Supposedly, they're not allowed to. I took the same approach with my Compaq
>Plus, which, while not a laptop, did take some airplane flights with me.
> 	...followed by stories of airline people asking Jay to 
>	   to open up Compaqs, power them up, etc.

This makes *zero* sense to me. I travel (and have traveled) a lot. I take
computers and computer related equipment with me. I have called airports
involved, and *every one of them* has told me their official policy is 
for the traveler to tell airline people to hand check the computer and
disks. (And I am talking: O'Hare, Logan, Atlanta, etc.) *Never* in four
years of travelling with computers have I *ever* had anyone insist that they
take the thing apart, power it up, have it sniffed by dogs, etc. And I have
never heard the bit about "they aren't supposed to hand check."

Sorry Jay, I don't mean to cast doubt on your claim, but I have never
even heard of that before.



                     - Rob DeMillo
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