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- From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
- Subject: Re: Airport x-ray machines
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 10:46:58 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <29970@castle.ed.ac.uk> cc@castle.ed.ac.uk (C Carruthers) writes:
- >Has anyone studied the effects of airport x-ray machines on handleld
- >computers (or indeed laptops)? Anyone suffered any data loss?
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- My HP-95LX just recently with through an airport x-ray machine. It and
- the 64KB SRAM card are just fine, no data appears to have be altered.
- This topic has come up often before, and it seems that in general,
- electronics and magnetic media are quite durable with respect to
- x-rays. There is more to fear from the strong magnetic fields from the
- x-ray machine's motors affecting magnetic media than anything else.
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- If you're really worried about it, you can often get your equipment
- hand inspected. They generally just want to see the machine turn on.
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