Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!uunet!cs.dal.ca!silvert
From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: airport x-ray machines/laptops
Summary: FCC clearance in foreign countries?
Message-ID: <1990Feb9.173102.1523@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 9 Feb 90 17:31:02 GMT
References: <6325@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> <4892@newton.praxis.co.uk>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
Lines: 18

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?

Wow, I hate to think of the stink that would go up if Air Canada tried
to confiscate my laptop because it didn't have a sticker from a US
agency (that is what the FCC is, right?).  I know that Canada has pretty
strict regulations, and machines like the Tandy 1100FD cannot be sold up
here, but I have never heard of this kind of draconian enforcement.
-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
UUCP: ...!{uunet,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill
Internet: bill%biomel@cs.dal.CA		BITNET: bill%biomel%dalcs@dalac