[cctalk] Re: FIDONET for shipping? Was: what to do with our "treasures"

2024-07-03 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 7:42 PM Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote: > Mike's idea is brilliant. Corporate rates with DHL or Fedex are much lower > than what you get as an individual. If your freight volume gets high enough > then it becomes outright cheap. If Vcfed as an organisation could be the > broke

[cctalk] Re: FIDONET for shipping? Was: what to do with our "treasures"

2024-07-03 Thread Tom Hunter via cctalk
Mike's idea is brilliant. Corporate rates with DHL or Fedex are much lower than what you get as an individual. If your freight volume gets high enough then it becomes outright cheap. If Vcfed as an organisation could be the broker then it would work well and make some money for Vcfed. Of course it

[cctalk] Door / AC power key for various Sun equipment

2024-07-03 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
For irrelevant reasons, I noticed the other day that the parts-for-power-plants mafia and ebay sellers are all asking $45 - $120 for a Sun 330-2014 key. WTH. If you don't care about the purple plastic on one end, I'm pretty sure that you can make these thusly: Ilco 1043J aka IL11, cut 34244