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- From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
- Subject: Re: OK to pass diskette through airport X-ray?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.124301.7328@tdb.uu.se>
- Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
- Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
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- References: <1992Dec30.233835.7565@lmt.mn.org>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 12:43:01 GMT
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- Chaz Larson (ChazL@county.lmt.mn.org) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec23.083627.2716@tdb.uu.se>, bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats
- : Bredell) writes:
- : > However, some x-ray machines have other bad things, like large motors that
- : > produce magnetic fields. I suggest that you ask the personell working there
- : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- : > if it's okay. If they say it's okay, you can put them through. Some won't
- : > let you do otherwise.
- :
- : Given that every airport security person I've shown any piece of computer
- : gear to has been unable to identify it is without my telling him/her [on
- : being shown my SE/30, "Is that a computer?" No, it's a really old Sony
- : Watchman.], I don't know if I'd trust their judgement as to whether or not
- : that big machine there emits dangerous [to media] magnetic fields...most of
- : the time, I'd be surprised if they knew what a magnetic field was.
-
- True, most airport personell don't know much about computers or magnetic
- fields, but they know what kind of equipment is unsafe to take through the
- x-ray. So you can (at least in Europe) trust them.
-
- /Mats
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- Mats Bredell Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
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