From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 08:38:58 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp) In-Reply-To: <1045a647a2347adfa400213707d00e8f.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> References: <20160801010846.GA15571@mercury.ccil.org> <1045a647a2347adfa400213707d00e8f.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, scj at yaccman.com wrote: > 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." Not Henry Spencer, perchance? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."