Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!moegate!soley From: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hard drives and airport x-rays, bad?? Message-ID: <211@moegate.UUCP> Date: 26 Mar 89 15:59:32 GMT References: Reply-To: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment Lines: 18 In article wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) writes: >Even if they insist, refuse to do it... I know of people who have lost both >floppies and hard drives to the x-ray machines. Whether or not it was the >x-rays, or the magnetic fields from the belt motors is unknown. > >I have run the gauntlet of airport security several times-- some are cool about >it, some are a pain in the ass. and at least one (Detroit, if I remember correctly) gives you a simple choice, put everything through the x-ray or turn around and go home, they will show you (but not give you a copy for use as evidence in a suit if that became necessary) a printed form which says the x-ray machine won't hurt computers. -- Norman Soley - The Communications Guy - Ontario Ministry of the Environment Until the next maps go out: moegate!soley@ontenv.UUCP if you roll your own: uunet!{attcan!ncrcan|mnetor!ontmoh}!ontenv!moegate!soley