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From: fraga@tennents.cs.ubc.ca (Eric S Fraga)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Laptops and Airports
Message-ID: <1953@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 23:08:49 GMT
References: <39382@bbn.COM>
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Reply-To: fraga@tennents.cs.ubc.ca (Eric S Fraga)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <39382@bbn.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>In particular: CAN the metals detectors harm microcircuits?  How about the
>xray machine... can zapping a laptop hurt it?

All I can say is that after many frustrating events where I tried
to get my Model 100 hand-checked and usually not succeeding, I
have given up and just put the thing on the x-ray conveyor belt.
So far, no problems.  Mind you, there's no disc (floppy or hard).

However, I do make sure that any disks I might have do get
checked by hand.

eric


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