[Info-vax] KZPCM-DX or KZPCM-DA (VMS compatible)

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:55:55 -0700, John Wallace wrote:

> Fedex may in theory be a freight forwarder, and the theory may even work
> for real now, but a decade or so ago when I spent several years sending
> and receiving DEC stuff around Europe from time to time, everything from
> a VME board to an AlphaServer 2100, there was a world of difference
> between a random US courier routinely recommended by DEC US folks (stuff
> gets shipped via Heathrow and frequently sits in customs indefinitely)
> and the freight forwarder which DEC Europe had an account with (Circle
> Freight, marvellous people back then - on one occasion when I was in
> need of a VME board from Munich for an exhibition in Birmingham the
> following day, they had the VME board in my hands something like twenty
> minutes after the flight from Munich arrived at BHX, which was about
> five minutes more than the driving time from BHX).

I had similar service from IBM back in the day.  The only available 
circuit board which we needed to get our printer working was located in 
Germany.  It was on the next flight to Heathrow and sent by black cab 
direct to our premises.  I had used the IBM speak equivalent of "elevate" 
to get that service, and it didn't disappoint. :-)


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Paul Sture