hallett@pet16.uucp (Jeff Hallett x5163 ) (12/14/89)
In article <2586878A.26444@paris.ics.uci.edu> truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) writes: >There has been a lot of fear expressed about loosing data to airport >x-ray machines. I must have put hard disks, RAM disks, floppies, tape >cartridges, everything under the Sun (er, I mean Mac) through the >normal security x-ray conveyors dozens of times and never missed a >byte. I did the "hand inspection" thing a couple of times and it was >such a pain to set everything up and turn it on! I just x-ray >everything now and simply don't experience problems. In fact, I've >never heard ONE story, even second hand, about someone loosing data to >airport x-rays. I think it is just a concept that concerned people mull >around inside their heads and get worried about. There is a lot of fear in general about floppy safety in many types of security systems. For example, I worked in Olin Library on Cornell Univerity Campus while I was an undergrad. We were in the process of installing a book security system (you know the type; put in a little mag strip and anyone walking through the sensors without desensitizing the strip sets off an alarm). We used to play the trick of putting a fresh strip in someone's bag; loads of fun. Anyway, nearly everyone who had a floppy (especially the faculty with those monster 8" flopy drives for their Teraks) would insist that it be passed around the sensor. 3M produced the system and provided a pamphlet that shows that the system is not harmful to floppies, but no one believed it. In fact, one person almost got punched out for refusing to pass the disk case around (under instructions from the Circ. Dept. Mgr). As an experiment we took 25 random sized floppy disks through the system 50 times and then tried them all and none had experienced any damage. -- Jeffrey A. Hallett, PET Software Engineering GE Medical Systems, W641, PO Box 414, Milwaukee, WI 53201 (414) 548-5163 : EMAIL - hallett@gemed.ge.com Est natura hominum novitatis avida
tracy@wolf.ccs.uky.edu (Tracy Gust) (04/11/91)
We are in need of the security rings that plug into the security slots on the backs of Mac IISi's and Ci's. We don't need the cable, or any other periphenalia. So far, all we can find are "kits" that run about $40 a piece. Is there any source that sells just these rings? Any suggestions or comments would be welcomed! thanks, tracy -- /\_/\ Tracy Gust - Microlab Mgr. ( . . ) Tracy@ukpr.uky.edu \_Y_/ Tracy@wolf.ccs.uky.edu