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From: wagner@utoday.UUCP (wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: airport x-ray machines/laptops
Keywords: laptops, eproms, x-ray
Message-ID: <1217@utoday.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 90 03:08:52 GMT
References: <6325@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> <4892@newton.praxis.co.uk>
Reply-To: wagner@utoday.UUCP (Mitch Wagner)
Organization: UNIX Today!, Manhasset, NY
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In article <4892@newton.praxis.co.uk> johnr@praxis.co.uk (John Richards) writes:
>
>On another tack, someone in this newsgroup suggested that machines had to
>have FCC clearance to be used on a plane or they could be confiscated (! -
>sounds extreme when they could just ask you to stop using it). He/she
>said his/her Z88 had an FCC clearance sticker on it. I've used my Z88 on
>planes with never a complaint but there is no FCC sticker. Should I be
>worried?

At last! A thread on a comp.* newsgroup which I can intelligently respond
to!

I ask the stewardess before using my T1200 on the plane. She says yes, 
then I do it, she says no, then I don't. Although I like giving 
big corporations a hard time about possibly petty rules, I'll forego
that pleasure when I'm thousands of feet above the ground with my 
life dependent on the proper functioning of a machine I know very 
little about.

But I try not to use it in the plane, as a courtesy to my neighbors.
I know I might find it annoying to be sitting six hours on a flight from NY 
to San Francisco next to some bozo going clickety-clickety-clickety on
a keyboard the whole way.

Sorry if I drift from the tech nature of this group. We now return to 
our regularly scheduled programming.... 

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