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- From: hamish@werple.pub.uu.oz.au (Hamish Moffatt)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Airport X-Rays
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.115038.5296@werple.pub.uu.oz.au>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 11:50:38 GMT
- References: <1992Jul13.020123.3132@mccc.edu> <13ra2gINN10i@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM>
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- smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:
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- >The X-rays themselves won't do any damage, unless you're carrying something
- >like 1000ASA photographic film, but they use pretty hefty electromagnets
- >to focus the beam, so I never trust floppies or tapes in them, just in case.
-
- Someone once told me that floppy disks have huge ASA speeds - much bigger
- than 1000ASA. No idea if this is true though.... (if true the X-rays could do
- damage too..)
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-
- Hamish
-
- --
- Hamish Moffatt, hamish@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au -and- hamish@werple.pub.uu.oz.au.
- Note new path to cloud: ...!eyrie.img.com.au!cloud Thank you. :-)
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