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- From: ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: OK to pass diskette through airport X-ray?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.233835.7565@lmt.mn.org>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 23:38:35 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.083627.2716@tdb.uu.se>
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- Reply-To: ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org (Chaz Larson)
- Organization: LaserMaster Corporation
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- In article <1992Dec23.083627.2716@tdb.uu.se>, bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats
- Bredell) writes:
- > However, some x-ray machines have other bad things, like large motors that
- > produce magnetic fields. I suggest that you ask the personell working there
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > if it's okay. If they say it's okay, you can put them through. Some won't
- > let you do otherwise.
-
- Given that every airport security person I've shown any piece of computer
- gear to has been unable to identify it is without my telling him/her [on
- being shown my SE/30, "Is that a computer?" No, it's a really old Sony
- Watchman.], I don't know if I'd trust their judgement as to whether or not
- that big machine there emits dangerous [to media] magnetic fields...most of
- the time, I'd be surprised if they knew what a magnetic field was.
-
- OK, so I'm hyperbolizing. Honestly, I don't think the average airport
- security guard will know much at all about the innards of that x-ray machine.
-
- chaz
-
- ..must think...bubble pipe will relax me and I think...
-