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- From: dny@humus.cs.huji.ac.il (Danny Halamish)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Airport X-Rays
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.084952.12730@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 08:49:52 GMT
- References: <1992Jul13.020123.3132@mccc.edu> <BrwMMA.6rG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <22754@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <4836@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <4836@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>, ralph@falcon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) writes:
- |>
- |> And while we are asking for facts (which are a rare find on this
- |> newsgroup): How about EPROMs and similar stored-charge memory devices?
- |> After all, EPROMs are erased by UV, do they resist the airport X-ray
- |> machine? I'd guess that the X-rays are heavily attenuated by the case
- |> of the EPROM (the top of which is transparent to UV light but not to
- |> X-rays), but is there real danger to EPROMs ?
- |>
- A friend of mine just returned from taiwan with two 486 boards, with bios and
- all. Both have survived the X - rays.
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- I have had audio tapes X-rayed in airports several times and did not notice
- any differnce.
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- -Danny
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- dny@mossad.cs.huji.ac.il
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