20 May
2004
20 May
'04
2:21 p.m.
Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Dan Veeneman wrote:
You *have* to get there early... I've heard that before, and it sure seems
to hold true in my experience...
And dangit, I would have *loved* to have snagged the expansion board for
the Heathkit 3400 trainer... <sniff>
Now I know to take Thursday off next year, too... if there is a next year,
that is.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Randomization is better!!!
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
As others have said, the amount of classic
computer equipment at
Dayton seems to be dwindling year by year. Occasionally there are
interesting items (the Micro PDP-11, for instance), but you have to
dig to find them.
I think it depends on how good you are at looking or perhaps what you're
interested in looking for. Your report varies greatly from the other
report that got posted. Your report makes it seem like the Dayton
Hamvention is still a good place to vintage computer crap.