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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: Do X-rays do harm to disks?
- Message-ID: <rdippold.715454662@cancun>
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- References: <1992Sep2.081128.9224@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:24:22 GMT
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- hal@cs.tu-berlin.de (Eberhart Adam) writes:
- >Hello out there,
- >a friend of mine will have to travel by plane (to russia) and needs
- >to take his notebook with him.
- >Do the x-ray devices on airports do any harm to disks (HD and
- >floppies)?
-
- The X-rays shouldn't, but the motors and magnets in the machine may do
- a number on the disks - ironically, the x-ray is one of the least
- harmful things to your disks in the entire machine. Also consider the
- motors on all the other conveyor belts.
-
- What I usually do is take my floppies in my carry-on (he should make a
- backup of his hard drive to floppy) then have the people hand-examine
- them.
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