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- From: hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt)
- Subject: Re: traveling in Asia with a laptop
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.031427.1024@cis.uab.edu>
- Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
- References: <1993Jan7.181456.1050@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:14:27 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.181456.1050@cbnewsi.cb.att.com> rhw@att.com (Robert Wentworth) writes:
- >Some time ago I asked some questions about taking a laptop while
- >traveling internationally, and I thought I would report back on my
- >experiences. Highlight: beware of Radio Shack power conversion kits.
- >
- >I traveled to Korea, Thailand, and Singapore. In the first two countries
- >it looked as if I needed to declare my laptop when coming into the country,
- >but the customs people weren't at all interested. In Singapore they didn't
- >even ask.
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- My most difficult trip was to Canada (???!!!) on entry, I clearly showed them
- my notebook machine with no visible response, sort of yeah, yeah, we see 'em
- all the time. When I got ready to leave, they couldn't find where I declared
- it on entry and went ballistic. I had this happen 15 years ago concerning a
- computer program listing that was about 15,000 lines of code. Thought I was
- trying to sneak something secret out of the country I suppose. In any case,
- beware of easy entry as the exit is not so easy......
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- If your entry inspector is thorough, I suspect it works better....
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- !Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences !
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