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- From: aj@lew.rosemount.com (Andy Joe)
- Subject: Re: OK to pass diskette through airport X-ray?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.175344.29306@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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- References: <1992Dec19.180213.10893@news.stolaf.edu> <1992Dec21.100300.19800@tdb.uu.se>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:53:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.100300.19800@tdb.uu.se> Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se writes:
- >Christopher A. Smith (smithc@amcl7.math.stolaf.edu) wrote:
- >: In article <1992Dec17.055403.2955@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> yu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Chen-Kuang Yu) writes:
- >: >Hi,
- >: >
- >: > 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?
- >: >
- >: > Thanks in advance.
- >: >
- >: >/Chen
- >:
- >:
- >: The best recommendation is that you just take the disks out before
- >: going through the security checkpoint and hand them to the security
- >: personnel there. They can hand-check 'em... Same thing for Syquest
- >: and other removable cartridges, and computers themselves (you'll be
- >: asked to turn it on, anyway, if they see it on the monitor)...
- >
- >When I was working at an airport, I never hand-checked disks. The owners
- >had to put them through the x-ray.
- >
- >/Mats
- >--
- >Mats Bredell Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
- >Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC) Ph: +46 18 187817
- >Department of medical systems Fax: +46 18 187825
- >Sweden Think straight - be gay!
-
-
- Can somebody explain what an x-ray machine will do to the magnetics
- on a diskette? Also, what about the lead bags that can be used for
- sheilding the x-rays from fogging photographic film? Will this work
- also?
-
- aj.
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