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- From: ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall)
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- Subject: Re: Airport X-Rays
- Date: 24 Jul 1992 17:24:47 GMT
- Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory
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- References: <13ra2gINN10i@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> <1992Jul23.115038.5296@werple.pub.uu.oz.au> <1992Jul24.160242.6175@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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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 who travels often should do us all a favor and experiment. Pack
- 360K, 1.2M and 1.4M disks with data (one big ZIP file, perhaps) and put
- them in the luggage that will be X-rayed. Trying to unZIP the file will
- reveal if any of the data has been corrupted. If several people do this
- in several airports (a variety of X-Ray equipment) and post the results,
- we'll all know for sure.
- -ted-
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