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- From: mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: X-Rays
- Message-ID: <9TVJoB1w165w@slic.cts.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 03:06:55 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.024447.105@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Organization: Muth Valley Seismic Control District, San Diego, CA / Node 2
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- bp112@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven C. Lin) writes in part:
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- >
- > I believe it may be that the airport guards in Europe are simply
- > more security conscious. A few years ago, after just getting a
- > camcorder and taking it on vacation (in US and Canada, not Europe),
- > I passed it to the security guards who just looked it over and
- > okayed it. But again, that media is magnetic tape also, so
- > presumably would not be ruined. However, that incident was before
-
- I've taken my floppies and ran them thru our airport-style X-ray
- screener 10 times in a row and them dropped them into my AT.
- Chkdisk reported no problems. But then I've run my arms into it
- also but I didn't have chkarm.exe with me to see if there were
- any problems. But the video was kinda interesting.
-
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- Mike, WB6WUI // INET: mikey@slic.cts.com // GEnie: SLIC
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