The Day's Finds

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Sun Oct 10 13:08:02 1999

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
>That reminds me..
> I was moving to California and wanted to bring my 11/73 in BA23,
>but the airline only allowed 75-lb packages. As some of you probably
>know, the ba23 itself is about seventy and it had lots o' boards, tk50 and
>a st251s in it so I was over the limit. They told me I was like eleven
>pounds overweight on that 'piece of luggage' and so I yanked the front
>cover off and began ripping winchesters, wires, etc out of the machine
>right in front of the whole line. People were staring with astonished
>faces when I finally got it down to 75 lbs, stashing the removed stuff in
>my carry-on. They threw it on the conveyor with no disks and no covers
>and nothing around the outside except a few FRAGILE stickers. It arrived
>at SFO slightly bent and with huge gouges around the cooling slots. The
>bottom pedestal attachments were the most difficult parts to bend back
>into shape.
> But I put the disks in, checked the boards for tightness and it
>fired right up when I got to my place.

PDP-11: It takes a licking, and keeps on kilo-core-ticking. ;)

                   -Dave McGuire
Received on Sun Oct 10 1999 - 13:08:02 BST