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RE: Airport X-rays & Computers
Regarding the HP Printer that died. . . .
I find it very hard to believe. I have carried a portable computer and
printer around the world several times, with rads of X-rays, and found
no problem.
I had an HP Portable (320) that just up and died one day for no reason.
I bought a 340 to replace it that has worked "sort of OK" for the last
year or so. After using both models for several years, I have come to
the conclusion that the HP portables simply are not very well engineered
and do not live up to HP's otherwise high standards and reputation.
I'd advise her to pursue a warranty adjustment, or buy a Canon portable
and be done with it.
Jim Barnes, CHP
Radiation Safety Officer
Rocketdyne Propulsion and Power / Boeing
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: William G. Nabor [SMTP:wgnabor@uci.edu]
> Sent: Monday, May 11, 1998 9:49 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Airport X-rays & Computers
>
> Radsafers:
>
> Last Wednesday a colleague of mine took her Hewlett-Packard
> portable inkjet computer printer with her on a plane. The printer
> was in her carry-on luggage and passed through the X-ray detector
> at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA. Upon arrival the
> printer wouldn't work. A call to the HP technical support line
> elicited the response that the X-rays had fried the printer's
> electronics.
>
> How likely do you find this explanation? Do you get the
> impression that the HP tech might have been too quick to blame
> something not covered by the warranty? After all, portable
> computers are carried on board planes by the thousands every day.
>
> Have any Radsafers had a similar experience? I'm not talking
> about stray magnetic fields erasing a floppy or two. To my
> knowledge there was no magnetic storage in the printer. We seen to
> be talking about X-rays themselves zapping an EPROM or something.
>
> If you do think this is a likely explanation, then why is this
> starting now? Is it due to smaller/more fragile electronics or
> stronger X-ray fields? Do we need to post a warning?
> **********************************************************************
> William G. Nabor
> University of California, Irvine
> EH&S Office
> Irvine, CA, 92697-2725
> WGNABOR@UCI.EDU
> mailto:wgnabor@uci.edu
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