12 Nov
2010
12 Nov
'10
4:47 p.m.
I once drove from near the northeast tip of illinois to purdude indiana
(whole other timezone-I think that caused some confusion) just to pick up an
sgi octane and avoid shipping costs on the 75 lb monster..
On Nov 12, 2010 4:05 PM, "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
tell.
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Teo Zenios <teoz
at neo.rr.com> wrote:
>> Over a period of 10 years, its not hard to sink $20K into shipping
>> fees alone when you collect stuff that needs to be shipped freight.
>
> Sure if you collect large machines and have them shipped cross country.
Most
of the heavy
items I have are local pickups...
Nearly all of my heavy DEC stuff came from The Ohio State University
or businesses around Columbus. I did drive to Dayton once for an
11/750, but I've gotten no item larger than an RL01 or PDP-8/a or
VT-52 from out of state. There was the time I ordered an LA-180, but
I used a "free shipping on your next order" from Newman Computer
Exchange to order that - it came strapped down to a pallet via van
freight from MI, right to my front door. I did use it for consulting
work later (on a locally-sourced 11/23), but at the time, I picked the
heaviest thing for my PDP-8/a that I thought I'd be likely to want.
So I've spent a few hundred on renting lift-gate trucks and such over
the past thirty years, but even a double-H960 PDP-11/34 setup w/drives
and software and docs fit in the back of my 1976 Microbus with room up
front for a passenger/loadie.
I'm sure someone who collects IBM iron has an entirely different story to
-ethan