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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Diskettes under X-Ray
Message-ID: <1295@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 18:02:56 GMT
References: <10570@netnews.upenn.edu# <4588@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM#
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Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <4588@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM#, timothym@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Timothy D Margeson) writes:
# Hi,
# 
# Been through several X-RAY machines at airports here in the States, never have
# seen a problem. This goes for several of my co-horts who travel more than I do
# on business.
# 
# International ports in England and Germany weren't too bad either, but tend to
# use higher doses that their US counterparts. That also follows for Amsterdam.
# 
# Tim Margeson (206)253-5240

X-rays are the problem (too short a frequency to bother magnetic media) --
it's the very large magnets used in SOME X-ray machines that can be
the problem.

I never take chances.
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer                   {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
Governments that don't trust most people with weapons, deserve no trust.
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