Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!hwcs!jack From: jack@cs.hw.ac.uk (Jack Campin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: how strong of a magnet? Message-ID: <1564@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 3 Dec 87 18:59:42 GMT References: <9554@shemp.UCLA.EDU> Reply-To: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) Organization: PISA Project, Glesga Yoonie Lines: 12 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: [ignore the above email address and use my signature] This may be an FOAF story (urban folklore) but I have heard that the mag-lev train at Birmingham Airport lets enough field into the passenger compartment to wipe floppies. Then again, I have also heard that story about ordinary underground railways and it certainly isn't true of them. -- ARPA: jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk JANET:jack@uk.ac.glasgow.cs USENET: ...mcvax!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jack Mail: Jack Campin, Computing Science Department, University of Glasgow, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland (041 339 8855 x 6045)