Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!decwrl!adobe!jackson From: jackson@adobe.COM (Curtis Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: airport x-ray machines/laptops Keywords: laptops, eproms, x-ray Message-ID: <1795@adobe.UUCP> Date: 9 Feb 90 20:44:09 GMT References: <6325@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> Reply-To: jackson@adobe.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View Lines: 14 In article <6325@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> tmb@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel) writes: }Unfortunately, right after running it through the machine, the disk }controller stopped working. Toshiba assured me over the phone some time ago that I could run my T3100 through any X-ray machine without damaging any internals including hard disk data, but they did not recommend putting floppy disks through the machine (neither do I)! My boss had the machine before me, and over about two years it has been on the road 12-16 weeks a year and never shown a problem. -- Curtis Jackson @ Adobe Systems in Mountain View, CA (415-962-4905) Internet: jackson@adobe.com uucp: ...!{apple|decwrl|sun}!adobe!jackson