[TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp)
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Wed Aug 3 08:38:58 AEST 2016
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?
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