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From: todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Do You Protect Portables/Disks in Air Travel?
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Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 05:47:03 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 23 05:47:03 1987
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Keywords: portables disks x-ray metal detector

In article <70@splut.UUCP> jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) writes:
>I would add that the last time I took my Plus along was a year ago, from
>Houston to LAX, and didn't have a single problem. The power-up request was
>at Dulles, about two years ago. Maybe security types have gotten enlightened
>since then...

Since I was one of the people who mentioned "hand checking," I thought
I'd follow up on this.

I just made a quick turnaround flight and carried my NEC MultiSpeed
with me.  I asked for a "hand check."  The security folks performed
a quick hand check and asked me to turn on my computer to verify that
it was indeed a functional computer.

...todd

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Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii Center for Teaching Excellence
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