[rescue] Resurrecting an IBM RS/6000 model 590

[Thomas Gallaway]

I just shipped a rather large unit to switzerland. Had it packed by The 
UPS
Store actually (as they should know what they do right?). I rather pay 
the
few extra bucks to get it packed right and then if there is any 
insurance
thing going on I can say they packed it. So actually the rather big 
object
of course got damaged shipping to switzerland. But no physical damage
to the outside of the box. Just the long transport has set a part on the
mainboard loose that scratched up the board a bit and cut the connection
to a memory slot. Sucks....

-- Thomas

On Feb 9, 2004, at 9:23 AM, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 05:36:04PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>> RE: 590s broken in shipment:  If you're talking about Doc's machine, 
>> it
>> was FEDEX not UPS that broke it in shipping.  I'm now at the point 
>> that
>> I'm tired of their incompetence and going to start using UPS 
>> instead...
>> hoping that they're not as retarded when shipping heavy objects.  
>> We'll
>> see how this works out...
>
> In delivering stuff to my apartment, UPS has shown every sign of not
> caring anymore than Fedex.  From either company, my packages tend to
> look somewhat squished, and both companies and happy to leave packages
> in the rain and/or in a snow drift.
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