[personal] wang 1220 photos & info

[Mike Hatch]

Easily more than the length of the UK, so yes a very good deal.

Mike

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From: "Jim Battle" <frustum at pacbell.net>
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> Mike Hatch wrote:
>> What sort of distance is that ?, (I'm not on the US), for that price and 
>> from the photo of the packaging I think you got a very good deal, 
>> transport over here (Uk) is expensive. We had a Selectric instead of an 
>> ASR33 on one of our mainframes, thanks for reminding me of them !.
>
> Mike, chicago and austin are about 1000 miles (1600km) apart.
>
> In response to my initial thread, tiggerlasv said that I could have had 
> the shipping done for slightly over $200 if I was willing to take care of 
> the rest myself.  The problem was that I wasn't situated near the machine 
> at the shipping end, and I don't have a truck and the necessary equipment 
> at the receiving end.  Having them literally drop it four feet outside my 
> office door was worth the extra $$.
>
>