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- From: nolan@tssi.com (Michael Nolan)
- Subject: Re: Airport X-Rays
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.215220.24958@tssi.com>
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- References: <1992Jul23.115038.5296@werple.pub.uu.oz.au> <1992Jul24.160242.6175@athena.cs.uga.edu> <14pecvINNn1a@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Jul26.115228.20372@mccc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:52:20 GMT
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- pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
-
- >In article <14pecvINNn1a@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) writes:
- >=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.
-
- >I, for one, can report that a 1.44MB 3.5-inch MS-DOS diskette made it
- >unscathed through two X-ray machines -- Philadelphia and Birmingham, AL.
- >The diskette was in a pocket of my Lands End attache case that rode down
- >the belt.
-
- On the other hand, I had a 720K 3.5" diskette that I forgot to take out
- of my computer's carrying case before it went through the X-ray scan and
- it now gives me read errors, although so far at least a couple of retries
- has always done the trick. (And I've compared the results with an earlier
- install and the files are identical.) Given my choice, I'd pull the
- diskettes from the case.
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- Michael Nolan, nolan@tssi.com "Freedom of the press is still alive in
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