On 22 Oct 2011 in rec.travel.air, Gunter Herrmann wrote:

In 1997/1998 I flew multiple times between MUC and TXL (both Germany)
and was forced to switch on the notebook. So that was long before 9/11.

If memory serves, that started after Lockerbie, for which the bomber(s)
used a bomb disguised as a portable cassette recorder. That incident
occured in December 1988.

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