RL02s available

From: Jgzabol_at_aol.com <(Jgzabol_at_aol.com)>
Date: Sun Oct 17 06:52:31 1999

In einer eMail vom 16.10.99 20:56:37 MEZ, schreiben Sie:

<<
 Gonna try to take a RL02 as carry-on luggage? :-).
 
 The above comment was only half-joking - I once took a full 10.5" high
 PDP-11/44 on an international flight. The power supply (the heavy part!)
 was removed and carried on, so that the main chassis (now just the
 steel frame and backplanes) weighed about 45 pounds and could fly without
 any checked-luggage-over-weight-allowance charges.
 
 I was lucky that day - they didn't weigh carry-ons (they often do in
 Europe now, and I think the limit is 5 or 7.5 kgs!)
>>

I fly a lot, and my hand luggage _NEVER_ has been weighted. However,
I would not try to do that anyway (too lazy for lifting large weights when
travelling), but there are many very good freight services in the US, a simple
reference to the yellow pages will always allow me to take care of
shipping within less than a day. It is simply so very much easier to find
things in the US than in Europe, that shipping costs are outweighted by that.
If you get together something on the order of at least 500 kg (a pallete
full, say)
I find that quite reasonable.

John G. Zabolitzky
Received on Sun Oct 17 1999 - 06:52:31 BST