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- From: hcs+@cs.cmu.edu (Henry C Schmitt)
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- Subject: Re: OK to pass diskette through airport X-ray?
- Summary: X-Ray OK, Magnets NOT!
- Keywords: Disks Airport X-Ray
- Message-ID: <BzGnAL.GD3.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 15:06:19 GMT
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- In article <BzELGq.329@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> neath@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Ian Neath) writes:
- >In <1992Dec17.055403.2955@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, yu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
- > (Chen-Kuang Yu) writes:
- >
- >> Is it alright to pass diskettes through airport X-ray? Is it
- >> ok if I include them in the luggage? Are they as sensitive as the
- >> harddisk to strong magnetization?
- >
- >A year or two ago MacUser did a pretty good test. One of the people
- >who writes the hints page ran some disks through the x-ray machines
- >1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 times. He got no problems with the once or twice
- >disks but quite a few read errors with the 4 and 5 times disk.
- >
- I remember seeing this article; the impression I got was the
- tester felt that it wasn't so much the X-Rays, but the motors driving
- the conveyor belts that were the problem. Anyway, what with the
- X-Rays, and the magnetic radiation I generally have them manually
- check my disks. I definately use the rule of thumb: "If it's
- important, pass it around." When delivering client software, I NEVER
- took a chance. The times I did run disks through, I never had
- problems. Your mileage may vary.
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