26 Sep
2007
26 Sep
'07
9:10 a.m.
Mr Ian Primus wrote:
Now, what I'm wondering, is how big of a hassle is it
to bring this across the border? I've never picked up
a computer from Canada. Is customs going to raise a
stink about a 25 year old minicomputer?
Back in late 2002, just after I'd been laid off, I convinced my
girlfriend to take a trip with me from Boston to Fredericton, New
Brunswick to pick up some Nat Semi ICM-3216 gear that had been built for
use at UNB. We drove up one day, spent the night in a motel, had a grand
time meeting the professor and his wife the next day and collecting the
gear before heading back South.
Coming back I would have been waved through except that I piped up with
what I had in back and handed over a note from the donor. Fortunately
when they read it was a gift of 15 year old obsolete computer stuff with
no commercial value, I was passed through. Country of origin might have
come up, I can't recall.
--S.
My post about customs:
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2002-November/010544.html
My post about the systems:
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2002-November/010545.html