Japanese computers

[Bob Bradlee]

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 20:11:26 -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

>Bob Bradlee wrote:
>> On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:53:31 -0700, vrs wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>From: "Bob Bradlee" <Bob at BRADLEE.ORG>
>>>
>>>>In the referb center we pushed them off moving vans and
>> 
>> 
>>>No wonder there are so few of these machines left ;-)!
>> 
>> 
>>>(I have always heard that the van should be stopped, and 
>>>the machine lowered slowly :-).)
>> 
>> 
>>>   Vince
>> 
>> 
>> Takes the fun out of it :)
>> 
>> We had a 158 come in one day, we had one of those back into
>> the building and down a hill kind of loading docks.
>> While waiting for his turn, one driver began "preping to unload"
>> in the lot. When it came his turn he came in a bit fast and a MG 
>> came off the back of the truck when he hit the stops hard. 
>> This was before the dock hand could put the flat ramp in place 
>> to cover over the "gap" between truck and dock.
>> I answered a cattle call to help getting it back on a smooth surface 
>> where the casters acted as wheels and not as keyways.
>> 
>> There was a story where one of the other FE's dropped an MG 
>> over the edge into an open floor section during installation.
>> I was assured that it was not fun to lift it back up to floor level.

>Where were you working at the time?

>Peace...  Sridhar