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From: barr@frog.UUCP (Chris Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: airport x-ray machines/laptops
Keywords: laptops, eproms, x-ray
Message-ID: <11910@frog.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 90 01:33:00 GMT
References: <6325@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu>
Organization: Charles River Data Systems
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> in Germany, they
> insisted that I run the computer through the X-ray machine. 

I've heard that German airport X-rays and magnetic field sensors
are more dangerous to film and electronics than other airports'.

> and unconcerned when I complained that they put my pack of floppy disks,
> which contained a month's worth of work, on top of an X-ray machine

Camera stores sell lead-lined(?) bags to protect high-speed film.
They're reasonably large & would hold floppies, perhaps T1000-size laptops.

 - Chris Barr