🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3ir4pb$ibi@access4.digex.net>,
Keith F. Lynch <kfl@access.digex.net> wrote:
>This morning was the Vienna (Virginia) Winterfest, an annual hamfest
>hosted by the Vienna Wireless Society.
>
>It isn't just ham radio gear that's for sale.  Lots of computer hardware
>and software, too.  I spotted the following bargains:
>
>(By "complete," I mean a computer comes with monitor, keyboard, memory,
>diskette drive, hard disk, and operating system, ready for use.)

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	You missed the TI-99/4 with expansion box, montior, etc, for $40.00
(Inside the double doors, just to the left.)

	[ ... ]

>Broken DEC VT220 terminal, free

	I know someone who got that.

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>Standard (high quality) touch tone desk phones, $10

	I know the fellow who was selling these.

	[ ... ]

>At the same hamfest last year, I rescued a Texas Instruments Silent 700
>printing terminal with built-in 300 baud modem and accoustic coupler from
>the trash.  It had been on sale for $15 but there were no takers.  I
>didn't see any Silent 700s this year.

	But another friend had a large stack of Sun cards -- 3/100 series,
3/200 series, 4/200 series (1 CPU), 4/300 series (1 CPU - he was asking a
lot for this, because he would rather keep it. :-)

>I've been attending that hamfest for over 20 years.  Oh, for a time
>machine so that I could attend it 20 years from now, and bring back
>28,800 baud modems, Sun/4s, and 1 gig disks for a dollar!

	Amen!

	Somewhere in the deleted text was a mention of floppys.  For those,
catch the bigger hamfests, such as the one at Timmonium Fairgrounds
(Baltimore area) next month.  (And for everyone outside driving range of the
Washington DC area (where this happened), there are hamfests all over the
country.  Some small things, others major ones which take all my energy to
walk around and find things which cry "Take me home!"

	Good Luck, all,
		DoN.

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