Xrays And Planes

Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:13 EST From: CDCLARK@INDSVAX1.INDSTATE.EDU Subject: Planes, X-rays and my Mac (Summary) Here's the summary of articles I received today 9-9-92 I would like to thank all of the follwoing persons for responding to my query on x-rays and macs. Thanks again for the quotes and personel stories you passed on. c- 8 IN%"dy@shire.math.co 8-SEP-1992 Traveling with a Mac 9 IN%"degroot@ips.id.e 9-SEP-1992 Mac and Airport 10 IN%"hp48sx@wuarchive 9-SEP-1992 RE: Planes, X-Rays and My Mac 11 IN%"JM144%MOLECULAR- 9-SEP-1992 Xrays and IIsi 12 IN%"jensen@itd.nrl.n 9-SEP-1992 Computers thru airport security 13 IN%"burton@cs.sfu.ca 9-SEP-1992 RE: Planes, X-Rays and My Mac 14 IN%"grant@itd.nrl.na 9-SEP-1992 Planes, X-Rays and My Mac 15 IN%"davegrow@tecnet1 9-SEP-1992 [ANS] Planes, X-Rays and My Mac 16 IN%"herren@middlebur 9-SEP-1992 x-rays & Macs 17 IN%"EGS2G1B@MVS.OAC. 9-SEP-1992 RE: Planes, X-Rays, and My Mac I have traveled with both a Mac Plus and a Mac SE/30 and have never had any problems. They've both gone through X ray machines and have even been checked as baggage. Nevertheless, I don't recommend doing either, if possible. Foreign airlines, like Air France or KLM, seem to have special handling for fragile baggage, but the domestic airlines don't. As for X ray machines, I'm pretty sure you only need to worry about your hard disk. The other thing I do, when I don't feel like setting up and turning on the computer, is I back everything up onto floppy disks. I then send the computer throught the X ray machine and ask for the floppies to be inspected by hand. However, I have never had any problem with the X ray machine messing up my hard disk. Deane Yang ----- Hi Chip, I now nothing specific or general about your "phobias", I just had my Mac on a plane once. This was going from Zurich to Duesseldorf (ZRH->DUS). It was a Mac Classic and I carried it with me... There was no damage (or anthing else worth mentioning) done to my little friend by the X-rays. Maybe somewhere else this will be different. (I have no affiliations with X-rays, am just a satisfied customer.) Sincerely, Claas de Groot ----- I do not think x-rays will harm your monitor any way. x-rays are not extremely bad for your harddisk and floppies either, as they are primarly effected by electromagnetic wvaes. The main risk for floppies/hd is the motors that drive the belt you put your stuff on. They generate enough electric field to damage floppies. Also the metal detector uses simple magnetic fields to check for weapons. It is VERY bad for floppies. But you may have luck -- Povl H. Pedersen hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu HP48sx archive maintainer All Opinions (C) Copyright the Intergalactic Thought Association ----- Hi Chip I live in England and have an SE30. During 1990/1 I travelled extensively- Germany, USA and Canada.My Mac went through numerous Xrays at: Gatwick, Heathrow, Frankfurt, Newark…