[GreenKeys] Utah Teletypers & shipping charges (was: need a good home for a model 19 teletype that needs some TLC)

[Richard]

In article <B3AC10ED-3D8C-43D3-95A0-FA225ED44590 at dls.net>,
    DR HOUSE <k9tty at dls.net> writes:

> I would like to help but the cost of fuel and freight are quite  
> large.  I just shipped a 28ASR from Illinois to Utah.

Wow, really?  I'm in Salt Lake City.  Any other local Utah teletype
dudes are more than welcome to meet up at our maker group to talk
teletypes or flexowriters.  (I have both, as I have mentioned recently
on this list.)  Some overview pictures of my computer graphics museum
can be seen here: <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org/the-collection>

MakeSLC
653 South State Street
Salt Lake City, UT
(behind the VOA, next to The Bayou)
every Wednesday 7 PM to 10 PM.

Find the maker group on facebook by searching for makeslc.

I collaborated with another vintage computer collector to get stuff out
of the Black Hole recently (flexowriters, friden tape punches, teletypes,
terminals, CDC console).  We drove down there separately and met up.
We spent the good part of a day and a half pulling stuff out of the
depths of the Black Hole and loading it into my rented Uhaul trailer
and car (Saturn VUE) and his van and trailer.

I have noticed that freight charges have been going up quite a bit; I
had my friend haul an SGI 4D/480 (big fridge size cabinet) from the
east coast out to SLC for $600.  Freight companies were quoting me
$1,000+ for that and the 4D/480 isn't really all that heavy, just big.
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