Traveling with Technology

Portable laptops can be a real asset for business productivity and personal organization while traveling to a foreign country. So it is definitely to your advantage to be prepared for unforeseen mishaps. To help you keep downtime to a minimum:

• Pack floppy and other removable storage devices containing copies of important programs and files.
• Bring along an emergency hard disk maintenance program.
• Back up new work to floppies often.

Even though there is no evidence to suggest that airport x-ray scanners will harm your diskettes, you can ask that they be inspected by hand at airport security. Computers can also pass safely through airport x-ray devices.