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From: espen@well.UUCP (Peter Espen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Airlines -new regulations say you must x-ray?
Message-ID: <2330@well.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 00:52:09 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 10 00:52:09 1987
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Summary: Airport X-ray scanners will not damage the Mac

In article <2130@calmasd.CALMA.UUCP>, cjn@calmasd.CALMA.UUCP (Cheryl Nemeth) writes:
> There's an article in the moderated group (by Raines Cohen) that was talking
>  about new regulations for bringing computers past the checkpoints.  It
> appears that they must either be checked or x-rayed.  Does anyone else
> have any other information about this, or the effects of letting them
> zap the mac?  (I did this once.  I had the mac in the original box, and
> let them run it through their machines without thinking what was in
> that box.  Nothing happend to it, but was I just lucky?)

	The X-ray scanners at airports will not damage your Mac in any way.
I have sent mine through them many times. Floppies should probably not go
through the scanners. I usually just hand them to the security attendant
and let them take the disks around the machine.
	espen