at the temporal coordinates: 11/29/01 1:29 AM, the entity known as Laurent
Daudelin at nemesys_at_cox.rr.com conveyed the following:
>
> on 28/11/01 23:03, Skrastins at timskrastins_at_peoplepc.com wrote:
>
>>> My 2 cents-
>>>
>>> I'd sure doubt the x-ray killed it. I've travelled about 3 dozen times this
>>> year, each time with my Newt through the security gate and it hasn't had any
>>> effect on mine.
>>>
>>> -Tim Skrastins
>>> MP 2100
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I do very little traveling, but I think there is an airport coincidence
>>>> with
>>>> my MP 2100 failing to register any new notes or meetings. I get a "Sorry ,
>>>> a problem has occurred . (-10557)" message anytime I try and put something
>>>> new into it. It never did this before it went through the xray machine at
>>>> San Francisco airport yesterday on my way back home here in Maine. I
>>>> didn't
>>>> want to put it through , but they told me they put through computers all
>>>> the
>>>> time with no problem. What is going on here? I tried the reset button and
>>>> removing and reinstalling batteries, but each time the MP restarted i did
>>>> not get the usual message about cards ( I have two - an 8 and a 2 meg flash
>>>> in the slots) . I can read anything that is on there OK, but can't write
>>>> due to the error message above. I have never used this forum before and am
>>>> desperate. I use the 2100 daily in my work. Help!
>
> Yes, I haven't traveled that much, but my 2100 went a few times through
> X-Rays and never suffered anything. However, I was thinking that maybe they
> changed something in the setting of their machines?
>
> -Laurent.
No. Except for very early X-ray machines exposing undeveloped film, the
problem has never been the X-rays. The problem is with the magnetic fields
generated by the motors that drive the conveyor belt. I'm pretty sure that,
long ago, all these were redesigned to move the motors away from the top of
the conveyor (and the motors are better designed to use lower power and to
reduce emissions). The most likely explanation would be if you weren't
there at the far end to catch your Newt when it came off the conveyor and
therefore it may have suffered some sort of impact. The whole "laptop
ruined by airport x-ray machine" has almost become something of an urban
legend -- it just doesn't happen nowadays. BUT, I *have* heard of laptops
getting destroyed because they're going thru now without the protection of
the laptop bag.
Just my 2 cents...
- Eric.
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