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fmc@aphasia.us.com (Frank McConnell) writes:

>Keith F. Lynch <kfl@access.digex.net> wrote:
>>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!

>ObAFC: Oh, for a time machine so that I could attend it five or six or
>ten years _ago_, and bring back...oh, what haven't I seen at a hamfest
>in a while?  SS-50 iron perhaps?  An Ohio Scientific Challenger?

>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.

>-Frank McConnell
> <fmc@aphasia.us.com>


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

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.

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