flea markets & hamfests

Actually I have found some of the best stuff when I volunteer at the local computer recycling events in Kansas City. I actually live 25 miles from Kansas City but I go to town occasionally to see the "big city". I acquired an HP86B that was dumped at the drop off 3 years ago and a Victor 1400 calculator with dust cover that was dropped off this year. We received and loaded 60000 pounds of computers, CRT's, printers and TV's between 8 AM and 2 PM one Saturday. Recently I found an Olivetti Programma 101 at the local computer recycling charity. There is a not-for-profit in Kansas City called the Surplus Exchange that collects computers from all of the local businesses and recycles them. $20 and it was mine. That's where I found the Cromemco Z-2 and dual 8" floppies I have. The really old stuff normally is sent directly to the recycler since they can only reuse some of the recent PC stuff. I am kind of the non PC guy that sorts some stuff. It's like looking for diamonds "lots of crud to sort through to find a few jewels." Mike McFadden