Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!linc.cis.upenn.edu!farber From: farber@linc.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: airport x-ray machines/laptops Keywords: laptops, eproms, x-ray Message-ID: <19984@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 5 Feb 90 12:56:53 GMT References: <6325@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: farber@linc.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 16 I had my T1000 zapped at the airport. It showed up as a keybaord failure. I called Toshiba in Calif and they said send it. They installed a new chip and changed a cardbaord guard sheet to one that did not act as a capacitor. Mine was two years old Dave David Farber; Prof. of CIS and EE, U of Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 Tele: 215-898-9508(off); 215-274-8292 (home); FAX: 215-898-0587; Cellular: 302-740- 1198 "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- R. P. Feynman