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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Laptops and Airport Security
Message-ID: <1889@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 88 17:05:49 GMT
References: <4426@garfield.UUCP> <3056@killer.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> What is there in a portable computer or in a box of floppy disks that is going
> to be harmed by X-Rays?
> 
> Wolf Paul
> ihnp4!killer!wnp

Some X-ray machines generate rather substantial magnetic fields -- it's
not the X-rays themselves that are of concern.

Clayton E. Cramer