21 Feb
2004
21 Feb
'04
5:24 a.m.
{SValley} We've only got about half the shops we
used to (3 or 4).
Even in the last couple years a couple more closed down.
What about these:
WierdStuff, Halted, Alltronics, Haltek. All OK?
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Haltek closed several years ago.
Alltronics moved to South San Jose, haven't been there but it is supposed to
be MUCH smaller.
Rumor has it the Foothill flea market is gone (moving to Lockheed?)
7:43 a.m.
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Frank McConnell wrote:
Al Kossow <aek(a)spies.com> wrote:
Yah! No more parking permit Nazis to worry about.
They've been replaced with something worse apparently:
Restrictions
We are near a secure military installation and no photography is allowed.
Security personel will be observing the market and they will demand your
"film" if they observe you taking pictures.
Stay away from the secure area east of the flea market. We understand
there will be some curiousity about the base, just observe it from the
flea market area. Don't head over there for a closer look. They are
justifiably paranoid.
Yeesh. Now we can feel paranoid as we rummage through electronic junk.
"Just what are you trying to build with that 1Kv transformer, Mr. Ismail?"
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Rumor has it the Foothill flea market is gone
(moving to Lockheed?)
Somewhere near there, details at <http://www.asvaro.org/fleamarket.shtml>. 
10:27 a.m.
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Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote:
Security personel will be observing the market and
they will demand your
"film" if they observe you taking pictures.
*blink* *blink*
"Please hand over your eyeballs. We know you're using them to take
pictures."
"Um, no, I'm using them to *see*. The crucial difference being I need them to
see what I'm doing."
"Hand them over or leave" [fx: click of safety lock on guard's gun being
unlatched]
Um, No thanks, I think I'll stick to the local "Let's rent out an indoor
sports hall for the day" type hamfests.
"Just what are you trying to build with that 1Kv
transformer, Mr. Ismail?"
How about "What do you intend to do with those
computer microprocessors,
Sir." Ugh. No thanks.
Surely there are some other car parks and suchlike in the area that could be
used? A few years ago, someone booked out half of the local supermarket's
car park for a day (Sunday IIRC) for a car-boot sale. Not sure how much the
supermarket charged them to do it, but the sale got more attention than the
supermarket :)
Later.
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philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice,
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI
... Stealing is illegal: our government hates the competition!
11:42 a.m.
*blink* *blink*
"Please hand over your eyeballs. We know you're using them to take
pictures."
This weeks episode of PBS: "Innovation" was about bionics.
The camera that was being used to help ths blind woman out,
although fixed to the _front_ of her eyeglasses, was actually
smaller than a human eyeball.
John A.
The proto-electronics pack was huge though.
And the system sucked at what it did.
But.... Soon....
footnotes: "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun/Doppelganger" (1969)
12:18 p.m.
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Surely there are some other car parks and suchlike in
the area that could be
used? A few years ago, someone booked out half of the local supermarket's
car park for a day (Sunday IIRC) for a car-boot sale. Not sure how much the
supermarket charged them to do it, but the sale got more attention than the
supermarket :)
Knowing how this sort of thing works, I'm sure it's very difficult, with
all the zillions of acres of blacktop in the Silicon Valley, to find a
suitable location. There are all sorts of regulations, liabilities,
insurance issues, etc. The insurance concerns, above all, are what keeps
anything from being done. In fact, with the state of the insurance
industry today, and the requirement from everyone and everything to
require insurance to do anything, I'm surprised this country functions at
all.
I hope it works out. Foothill was great but those parking lot cops were a
bunch of fucking pricks. I'm glad it's moved and I hope it has found a
permanent location for the next 20 years.
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7:36 a.m.
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Al Kossow wrote:
Rumor has it the Foothill flea market is gone (moving
to Lockheed?)
That would be great! Much closer to me. Though I still probably won't
make it a regular thing. I hate getting up that early on a Saturday.
http://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/
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