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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macs & Airplanes
Message-ID: <1329@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Date: 22 Dec 89 13:13:12 GMT
References: <0ZW2jpq00XcQIBdWgW@andrew.cmu.edu> <258D13EB.20254@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Reply-To: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.sys.mac truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) writes:
< rc3h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ross Ward Comer) writes:
< 
< >Macs & X-Rays - What's the deal?  Will airport x-ray machines harm
< >Mac/HD/floppies?
< 
< Still a controversy. I've heard ONE AND ONLY ONE story about a friend
< of a friend of someone on the net who had a 9" tape erased while going
< through an airport x-ray machine in Germany. On the other hand, I've
< taken a setup similar to yours (Mac SE/30, internal 80MB, various
< floppies, all in a padded cordura "bag") through numerous airport x-ray
< machines in the USA and never dropped a bit.
< 
I have had one floppy zapped by an airport x-ray machine.

That floppy was buried on the bottom of my travel bag. A few floppies in a
side pocket were completely unmolested.

I contend that it's the magnets of the belt motors which cause this kind of
trouble, and not the x-rays.
I never had trouble with Macs, hard disks, or whatever. Hard disks are very
well "shielded" and should not lose any data.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs