airport x-ray machines: can they damage 8" floppies?

[Courtney, Lee]

I flew from Chicago with a couple 1/2" reel tapes this summer and just
asked that they not be x-rayed. The TSA attendant called their
supervisor who did a physical examination, swabbed them, and I was good
to go. Of course YMMV.

Lee Courtney
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Richard
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 8:28 PM
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: airport x-ray machines: can they damage 8" floppies?
> 
> I'm going to VCF/nanotech thing by plane and I thought this 
> would be a good way to bring Al some 8" floppies (PLATO 
> system!) to archive/image, but I wondered if the airport 
> x-ray scanner would do anything bad to them?  I'd hate to 
> damage them on my way to having them archived...
> 
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