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From: gentry@kcdev.UUCP (Art Gentry)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Laptops and Airports
Summary: I always have mine hand checked
Message-ID: <727@kcdev.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 15:06:23 GMT
References: <39382@bbn.COM>
Organization: AT&T Kansas City, MO.
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In article <39382@bbn.COM>, cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
> Does anyone know what impact the airport security systems can have on
> a portable computer?  A colleague had his laptop passed through the metal
> detector and one raster-line of the display stopped working...  
> 
I don't have any facts on what the various security systems may do to a laptop,
I have just heard rumors and horror stories.  As a precaution and for a little
piece of mind, I have always had my laptop (HP110+) hand checked.  I have
carried it for 6+ years on many trips a year and have never had a hassle from
the airport folks about a hand check.  The same is true for discs and tapes
that I carry.

Art