Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsi!hrs1
From: hrs1@cbnewsi.ATT.COM (herman.r.silbiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: airport x-ray machines/laptops
Summary: lap tops, airplanes, and security
Keywords: laptops, eproms, x-ray
Message-ID: <1913@cbnewsi.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 90 05:40:49 GMT
References: <6325@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> <4892@newton.praxis.co.uk>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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My laptop must have been xrayed a hundred times by now, and the only time
I lose data is due to errors on my part.  In the USA domestically, I have
never been asked to show the machine.  Abroad, they routinely ask you to
turn it on and make it work, so make sure your batteries are charged.

By the way, they also ask to see if your camera works.  Usually they
want to take a picture of you, and point the camera straight at you.

Herman Silbiger