Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Laptops and Airport Security
Summary: maybe an associated magnetic field?
Keywords: Laptop, X-rays
Message-ID: <383@mks.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 13:03:50 GMT
References: <4426@garfield.UUCP> <3056@killer.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <3056@killer.UUCP>, wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul) writes:
> What is there in a portable computer or in a box of floppy disks that is going
> to be harmed by X-Rays?
> Can anyone enlighten me with scientific reasons for this panic?

I tend to agree with your skepticism, Wolf. The only reason I can think
of is that there must be one humungous power supply in those machines,
with associated transformers, etc. Although the X-rays may be unimportant,
perhaps it's the rest of the machine that should be watched.

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