The Day's Finds

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. ;^} On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, emanuel stiebler wrote: