11 May
2000
11 May
'00
3:01 p.m.
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Tony Duell wrote:
Over here, alas, it's becoming rare to find
classic computers at radio
rallies. In fact at the last rally I went to, I saw exactly _2_ classic
computers, a Spectrum and an Oric 1. As I have both, I wasn't interested.
The same is happening over here as well. It seems the supply has either
dried up or most of the stuff that used to end up at ham fests or car boot
sales is now finding its way to eBay.
I got plenty of parts, some test gear, etc, so the
rally wasn't a waste
of time, but I certainly didn't find any minis, workstations, etc. Plenty
of battered 486 boxen, which have no interest at all.
From the last one near my house I went to last Sunday I
picked up some C64
carthridges (pretty interesting ones though...music synthesizers
and
what-not) and a numeric keypad for the Apple ][ that plugs into the Game
I/O port(!) Of course it was sort of rained out so it's perhaps not
entirely indicative of the state of the event. The next major ham fest in
the Silicon Valley is this Saturday. I haven't been in a while so it'll
be interesting to see what turns up. Of course by the time I get there
the usual group of local suspects has already picked up the Altairs,
SOL-20s, Sun 1-100U's, etc. :)
Sellam