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On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:49:54 -0500, "John N9JG"
wrote: Back in the minicomputer days, we had a disk drive for a DEC PDP11-70 on order. In those days drives were large and heavy, and a single drive might take up one-third of a rack. Well, the freight truck driver pulled up near the loading dock, opened the rear doors and backed the semi up to the loading dock. The driver got out again and looked around for unloading help. Not finding any help, he climbed inside the trailer and rolled the 120 pound crate out the back of the truck and down onto the loading dock. The height difference between the floor of the trailer and the loading dock was about four feet. The driver pulled forward, closed the trailer doors and drove off. Needless to say the drive didn't work, and the shock detector inside the packing crate indicated the drive had suffered at least one large impulse during shipment from the factory to the customer. Not as serious, but I once had a drive about 2x3x4 feet in size merely dropped off by UPS on an unattended, open loading dock -- no signature taken. That was on the shipper for not requiring a sig. But it stood on the dock, only occasionally attended, for another three days, with no notice to me -- my company's bad. When I fnally called the vendor, they chased it down (pre-tracking-website) and found it had been delivered three days earlier. Dumb vendor -- when we later replacd a line printer with a faster one, they were supposed to come and pick up the old one. They screwed around for four months and finally came around for the printer, on the third floor of a three-story building. Ha-ha -- by that time, the freight elevator was out of service for a couple of weeks for re-building. The vendor had to hire another outfit to come out with expensive equipment capable of walking a heavy printer down two wrapped flights of stairs. "Chuck Harris" wrote in message ... Phil Kane wrote: [stuff] Sounds like bovine excrement to me. I have dealt with companies in the past... [stuff] |
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