O lucky man! My basement is only stairs-accessible (although one of them is an outside stairs, which is a big help), which led to an extremely annoying incident recently. (This has nothing to do with wiring, but your comment poked a hot-button...) I already had one 11/84, which was donated to me by a fellow aficionado of PDP-11's out in Wisconsin. When I got it here, I was trying to work out how to get it all (CPU cabinet, TU80 cabinet, RA81 cabinet [no drives], and 2 RA81's [separate]) into the basement (the only feasible place to put it in our establishment). I wound up building a ramp out of 2x10's on the outside stairs, and using a block+tackle to lower the units down that into the basement. Worked pretty well, actually - got the whole works down by myself in a couple of hours. So I got another 11/84 system (yeah, yeah, I know) which was in Fornicalia, and had to have it shipped. I originally tried to ship it freight (hey, the units are on wheels, and I didn't care if it got dinged a bit through not being packaged), but when they found out it wasn't palletized, I had to go 'white glove' (at twice the cost). But the good part was 'at least' with WG you get 'inside delivery'. So I'm figuring, good, they'll help me get it into the basement. Nothing doing. I showed them the units in the basement (so they'd know I had experience doing it), they looked at the ramp, and they called their company and then flat-out refused to have anything to do with the process. They claimed they thought it was 'dangerous'. I suspect their real motivation was i) it was raining lightly (which is another irritating thing, they were orignally scheduled to deliver on a day when it was supposed to be good weather, and they begged to move the delivery up, and I told them about the weather, but they were insistent, so I agreed - big mistake, I should have dug in my heels), and ii) they were in a hurry (see previous about wanting to deliver a day early) and wanted to hit the road ASAP. So anyway, we stuck it all in the garage to wait for a day it wasn't raining (hey, if I had to do it all myself, why do it in the rain?), and then my wife and I (she's 4' 10", and all of like 90 lbs) got it into the basement in a couple of hours, no problem. But two big, burly moving guys (I'm 6'0", 200 lbs, and they were a lot bigger than me) thought it was too much for them. To add final insult to injury, the moving company refused to offer any partial refund for not providing the 'inside delivery' they had been paid (a lot!) for! In addition to all the above, it took them 6 weeks to get the stuff here from California. Now, admittedly, Christmas and New Year's were in there, but... Anyway, I would highly recommend having nothing to do with this company; it was an outfit called UKAY. I've dealt with a number of crappy shippers, but these guys were The Shipping Company From Hell. Tell everyone you know about them. Noel