Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!fortune!rpw3 From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.periphs Subject: Re: diskettes and x-rays - (nf) Message-ID: <2512@fortune.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 07:05:00 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2512 Posted: Sat Feb 11 07:05:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 04:20:08 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 19 #R:hsi:-11100:fortune:8500002:000:458 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 UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphins Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065