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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Laptops and Airports
Message-ID: <665@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 4 May 89 17:21:52 GMT
References: <39382@bbn.COM> <1953@ubc-cs.UUCP>
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In article <1953@ubc-cs.UUCP>, fraga@tennents.cs.ubc.ca (Eric S Fraga) writes:
> 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.

I've sent many tapes and diskettes with data on them to various countries,
and have never lost a single byte.  Mind you, all mail are checked with x-ray
machines with stronger radiation than in the ones used for hand luggage at
airports.

As I'm working for a distributor of computer equipment from a certain U.S.
computer company, all systems shipped to us usually have the o/s and misc.
software pre-installed at the factory. The systems are of course x-rayed,
both in the U.S. and here in Sweden. We've never had any problem with lost
bits on the disks on arrival.
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