Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!ehr From: ehr@ecsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.trs-80 Subject: airport x-ray Message-ID: <3528@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 17:26:22 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.3528 Posted: Mon Dec 3 17:26:22 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 03:04:38 EST Lines: 22 On an upcoming lengthy trip on which I plan to use my Radio Shack model 100, I plan to back up the RAM files I create to cassette tapes -- something I don't normally do since at home I can copy them to my model III's disks. An article -- I don't remember which magazine -- about someone's computer tapesss allegedly being wiped out by airport x-ray security devices got me to thinking about this possibility. I don't recall ever seeing any items posted on this subject. Is this really a problem? Do the lead-foil bags sold for carrying photographic films help? Or is it best just to make sure tapes never go through any x-ray machines? Also -- and I realize this may be a dumb question, but I think it's safer to ask than be sorry later -- could these machines damage files stored in RAM? Any comments will be appreciated. Thanks. Ernest H. Robl (ehr@ecsvax) Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, NC