24 Jun
2004
24 Jun
'04
1:38 a.m.
Interesting. I've been attending MIT Flea for 10
years, and
was just lamenting with friends about how nothing resembling
"vintage stuff" even appears there anymore -
The MIT, as with other flea markets that I've seen has a sweet spot of
6 year old equipment, plus or minus 3 years, that can be found.
( 20 years ago it might have been 8 +/- 4 )
When the thing you're looking for is older than that, it was tough
even before eBay. This lesson I learned, hard, with a desired
IBM 5100.
The Suns and Macs mentioned this month can be augmented with
a 1990 Canon video still camera, and large quantities of Alphas
and SGI's seen last time out, all of which will be gone gone gone
in 10 years.
John A.