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