Dayton Hamvention (was Re: Trenton Computer Festival)

--- David Comley <david_comley(a)yahoo.com> wrote: There's always lots of everything there (except what you are looking for ;-) Several test equipment vendors show up with bakery rack after bakery rack full of HP and Tektronix gear - other vendors sell box after box of Tek manuals. There's lots of older computer _and_ radio gear, but there's a definite window of opportunity in terms of age - kinda like the stuff you see at the thrift store change over time. Once, they were loaded with Commodore and Atari gear. Much less now. It's a case of identifying what's just become obsolete in the business world and expecting to see piles of _that_. When I first went (1982), DEC equipment was everywhere, PeeCee equipment was virtually nowhere, and there was plenty of people selling Commodore VIC-20s and CW gear and other things of that vintage. Given what I've been seeing at the Ohio State surplus, I'm expecting a bumper crop of pre-G3 PowerMac gear - stuff that won't run OS X at all and won't go much past MacOS 8.6 without a fight. There should also be plenty of PeeCee parts from machines that shouldn't run NT/2000/XP on a dare. There will also be radio vendors, antenna vendors, battery vendors, etc. Mendelsson's will probably have their large tent with pallets of slightly-crushed UPSes, ammo cans and other surplussy things. I go, but I buy less and less each year - I'm not in it for the mainstream stuff - for that, I go to the ComputerFest (same venue, but all indoors) in March and August. -ethan The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com