Ah, now there's the rub: locally.  There's nothing local here -- my
location is VERY rural.  Our gasoline, food, furniture -- everything is
extra costly because of our "apart"ness.  My current job/life situation
would make it very difficult for me to travel there to pick it up.  Any
chance on finding local help, ship bit-by-bit over a couple of months
via slow, cheap ground?

-C

allisonp@world.std.com wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Chris Craft wrote:
> 
> > I'd love to get my hands on this one, but I live in Colorado and have no
> > way of getting it here besides hiring a shipping company to do so!
> > (Expen$ive!)  Any suggestions?
> 
> Only one, if you paid $200 for one similar locally you'll likely save
> money and VAX4000s are not that rare.  Shipping for that kind of weight
> is not trivial.
> 
> Since he (matt) does not wish to be involved in shipping it or packing it
> you would have to rely on someone local to pick it up (assuming they
> didn't want it).  This is often the case with systems, the owner cannot or
> wishes to not get involved in the potenital hassels of shipping it.  As  a
> result of that in the past I've driven some serious distances to get some
> of the systems I now have.
> 
> That whole pile of hardware is enough to fill the back of a small pickup
> when you include the terminals, docs, TU81 and friends.
> 
> Allison