> > > I have one that was mangled in the house-move (the movers decided to cut > > the keyboard > > cable for me). > > Wow, did you get any compensation?
You are joking, right? Their 'terms and conditions' mean you had to claim within 7 days of the move. I don;t know anybody who could inspect everything they own within 7 days. Other damage included a hard disk unit being dropped so that the metal casing was totally out of true (amazingly the winchester drives survived) A Pro 350 being dropped sufficiently hard that the chassis was bent so getting the processor board out was non-trivial (that machine has been restored, although it really needs a new top cover). The Dablo 3000 keyboard cable I have already mentioned, also the mains lead from one of my PDP11/10s was ripped out (no good reason for doing this, it was coiled up on top of the processor box), I haven't fixed that yet Just about every keyboard I own lost keycaps. Still looking for ones for a couple of HP86Bs and a Newbrain And a number of things, some of sentimental value (like a Nikon lens [1] tbat was the last thing my father and I ever talked about), others of financial value, and some of almost no value at all (the set of screws and internal bracketry I need to put my R80 together) 'disappeared. [1] I have managed to buy another one of these, but it's not the same, of course. They were clueless about this, they took a relatively common and not-too-valuable lens because, I guess, it looked impressive (300mm f/4.5) while leaving the much nicer PC-Nikkor. I estimate the total loss (including repairs) is well into 5 figures. I could have taken them to court, but as a friend said 'There's one of you, six of them and they will lie through their teeth'. So I just have to put thing right as best I can. To tie in another thread, my big regret is not renting back the house I sold (the seller would have let me do this) for a month and giving 3 of my friends \pounds 10000 each to do the move for me. It would have cost a bit more but I would not be now looking for a keycap for a Newbrain or the gas strut brackets for an R80. -tony /P
