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Re: [OM] Smart media

Subject: Re: [OM] Smart media
From: Ray Moth <ray_moth@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:36:36 -0700 (PDT)
John Hermanson wrote: 

I'm starting to hear stories of people who allowed their smart media to

be X ray'd at airports and now the media is dead.  Is smart media 
susceptible to this?  I did not know that!

=====================================================================
John,

I don't know what smart media is but, if it relies on magnetic
recording like floppy disks do, I imagine there could be magnetic
fields involved in generating X-rays that may affect it.

Regards,

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Ray

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