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From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP
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Subject: Re: diskettes and x-rays - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 07:05:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 11 07:05:00 1984
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fortune!rpw3    Feb 11 03:51:00 1984

Disks and tapes are almost totally immune to X-rays, per se,

	BUT...

there are big womping magnets in most X-ray machines!

Lead foil will not necessarily protect them. Steel cases
will help, aluminum may not (depends on whether the field
is D.C. or A.C., and if A.C., what frequency).

Rob Warnock

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