rays and media

[Ben Pfaff]

"Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> I am planning a trip on a plane and most likely I will be carrying on me as
> hand luggage a bag to contain a hard drive with data on it and zip disks.
> 
> Should I remove those from the bag before letting the bag slide through the
> "xray" machine or does this stuff go unharmed?

X-ray machines don't generally cause problems with computers or
electronic media as far as I've ever heard.  My friend Tim says
he's taken his computer through checkpoints before and it didn't
cause trouble.