12 Sep
2008
12 Sep
'08
6:19 p.m.
On Sep 12, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
I wrote:
I think those days are LONG gone. I don't even see them on eBay
very often. I sure wish I had picked up a few spares before they
dried up. But of course I can say that about a great many things.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Not that terribly many years ago, one
couldn't walk down the
aisles of
electronic surplus stores without tripping over
piles of VR201s. I
guess those days are gone.
Richard wrote:
Depending on where you live, those days were
never here in the first
place.
I would expect that only in Silicon Valley or on the 128 beltway
would
those days have ever been "here".
No, I used to routinely see piles of them in surplus outfits in
Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. They weren't huge piles,
so I was exaggerating a bit, but they definitely weren't at all
difficult to find.