From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: scj@yaccman.com (scj@yaccman.com) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 10:11:26 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp) In-Reply-To: References: <20160801010846.GA15571@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: <1045a647a2347adfa400213707d00e8f.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> > My 'incident' was around 1985 if I remember correctly. A time people > and border guards started to realise the possible value of what was on > such funny things like diskettes. Also I crossed 'National' borders. > Now that can be tricky even today :-) > A Canadian friend of mine, after working in the US for five or so years, was returning to Canada about 1969 with five years of research in 20 or 30 boxes of punched cards in the back of his car. He was stopped at the border and told that he would have to pay duty on the card boxes -- I think the total came to over $200. He argued with them for some time, and finally one of the agents opened one of the boxes and said "Oh! These are USED punch cards! There is no duty."