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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard drives and airport x-rays, bad??
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Date: 23 Mar 89 14:49:38 GMT
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In article <CMM.0.88.606507161.carter@Portia.stanford.edu> carter@PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU ("Thomas J. Carter") writes:
<I'm planning on taking my hard drive for a ride on a plane.
<I don't plan on letting it go through the x-ray machine, but
<if they insist will it cause a problem?  Thanks in advance.

A couple years ago, when the Toshiba T3100 was still hot stuff, a friend
who writes many of their manuals took one of these machines to London. It
was no problem leaving, but on the way back they insisted that the machine
go through the X-ray or be checked in as baggage.

Not wanting to take a chance on losing her work, she refused to take it
through the X-ray. She never saw the machine again, (nor did Toshiba
who owned it). The eventual word that Toshiba handed down was that the
X-ray machine would not damage the hard disk. (Unfortunately, this 
information still fails to make it into the documentation. Why don't manu-
facturers test their drives and make a statement about this one way or
the other?)

Shirley Kehr