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Aucbvax.2360 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works Sun Jul 19 10:52:56 1981 Re: Office of Tomorrow, on an airplane? >From LLOYD@MIT-AI Sun Jul 19 10:42:45 1981 People are forbidden to use electronic devices on an airplane because they MIGHT interfere with the navigational equipment. Rather than make a value judgment on each item, they forbid all items that don't fall into the categories tape recorder, cardiac pacemaker, and electric shaver.

I am a commercial pilot and I have used many different pieces of electronic equipment in an airplane (including a two meter amateur radio transmitter) without effect on the radios. When people start using their personal computers on the plane, someone will find out if they really cause a problem (with the new FCC EMI (electro-magnetic interference) regulations I see no problem with using microprocessor-based devices on a plane).

Brian

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