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In article <3itt5i$si5@news2.delphi.com>,
DCONGDON@DELPHI.COM <DCONGDON@news.delphi.com> wrote:
>fmc@aphasia.us.com (Frank McConnell) writes:

>>Quite frankly, I was disappointed that your list had so little of
>>interest in the way of historical computing.  I guess things have
>>changed since I lived back thataway.

I agree.  The "nice" computers were outnumbered by the IBM type toy PC
rubbish and quite a few Macintrashes.

>Amen!  I too have been a hamfest attender for years and am very dis-
>appointed that a lot of the neat historical stuff is not appearing
>very often.  PC stuff is fine but when you spend your whole working
>day with it you need a break!  I was at a hamfest a few years ago and

I'm glad that I don't have go near an IBM type toy PC at home or at
work, of course, I did disable the blasted annoying multimedia sound
on one that someone else was using at work, however.

>was able to buy an IM/P computer for $5.  What really killed me was
>that the seller told me that he had four Altair 8800's which he
>wanted to unload but he didn't think that anyone would be interested!

Why would he think that no one would be interested?  How horrible!

>I would have bought them all!  He wasn't interested in mailing them to
>me so here I am still without an Altair.....

I spotted a few of those at the Timonium Hamfest.

>So moral of the story....if you are a regular hamfest seller and you
>have neat old stuff, truck it along anyway and I think you'll find
>that _some_ people still love that stuff and would rather see it than
>a tired old XT for $10.

I'd also rather see it than all those new Pentium (broken '586)
systems.  It was sickening to see all the, literally, tons of new and
used IBM type toy PC systems being sold; why do people want them?

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