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From: glenn@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.config
Subject: Re: Jokes about utcsstat still down.
Message-ID: <540@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Sep-83 15:51:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.540
Posted: Thu Sep 22 15:51:21 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Sep-83 15:42:34 EDT
References: <3204@utzoo.UUCP>  <326@wateng.UUCP> <1094@utcsstat.UUCP>
Reply-To: glenn@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Glenn C. Scott)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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  My favourite experience with DEC Field Service was the delivery of a VAX-750.
Each box containing the (not small) parts of the 750 had the familiar sign:

		    P L E A S E   D O   N O T   O P E N
		To be opened by authorized Digital Equipment
		  Corporation field service personnel only
			   ...(ad nauseum)...

  When DEC showed up there were three guys that looked like refrigerators with
human heads.  Each guy grabbed a box and ran up the stairs to the second floor
of the building.  Reminded me of the Samsonite commercials with the Gorilla
smashing the suitcase.  No human that I knew could possibly handle that
equipment the way our friendly DEC Field Service did.  Guess you had to be
there.

Glenn

PS:  The machine worked fine.