I wrote:
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.
Eric