14 Sep
2012
14 Sep
'12
8:46 p.m.
you dont find oodles of vintage stuff anywhere. You may chance upon something at the Flea.
Its been five years for me, 10-12 prior that. It never blew my socks off. There were a few
guys with machinery last time, which always lights my fire.
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:07 PM PDT Sam O'nella wrote:
Nah, I down South in an area that you would THINK would
have lots of neat
tech findings but it's mostly new tech here and a lack of vintage.
14 Sep
14 Sep
9:40 p.m.
On 09/14/2012 08:46 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
you dont find oodles of vintage stuff anywhere. You
may chance upon
something at the Flea. Its been five years for me, 10-12 prior that.
Heh. If you listen to this crowd, PDP-11s and ASR33s can be found in
any dumpster or on any street corner anytime, and nobody should ever pay
more than a dollar or two for one. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
10:08 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On 09/14/2012 08:46 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
Maybe 30 years ago ;-)
But then, those weren't classic.
-jim
you dont find oodles of vintage stuff anywhere.
You may chance upon
something at the Flea. Its been five years for me, 10-12 prior that.
Heh. If
you listen to this crowd, PDP-11s and ASR33s can be found in
any dumpster or on any street corner anytime, and nobody should ever pay
more than a dollar or two for one. ;)
-Dave
10:20 p.m.
On 9/14/2012 7:40 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
Heh. If you listen to this crowd, PDP-11s and
ASR33s can be found in
any dumpster or on any street corner anytime, and nobody should ever pay
more than a dollar or two for one. ;)
I put more faith in this quote.
" I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner
drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by. "
-Dave
10:38 p.m.
On 09/14/2012 10:20 PM, ben wrote:
On 9/14/2012 7:40 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
Well in PDP country and MIT flea and anywhere within 30+ miles of "The
greater Maynard area"
they tend to be far more common. And up till about 10 years ago they
were common in the
dumpsters as most people had more than they needed or wanted. Even I
started refusing them
as I maxed out on Qbus 11s.
The second epicenter of PDP-whatevers was the research centers and
universities who
sadly have dumped theirs at least before the last decade. but up to that
point they
were like house flies.
Now we have "collectors" that have not a clue what they are driving the
prices up.
Allison
Heh. If you listen to this crowd, PDP-11s and
ASR33s can be found in
any dumpster or on any street corner anytime, and nobody should ever pay
more than a dollar or two for one. ;)
I put more faith in this quote.
" I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner
drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by. "
-Dave
12:32 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philipp Hachtmann" <hachti at hachti.de>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: anyone (still) going to the MIT Flea Market?
Am 15.09.2012 03:40, schrieb Dave McGuire:
Well I have noticed some stuff that I have a bunch of that used to be common
as dirt tend to dry up in a few years when other people are looking for
them. I would think collectors pre ebay (and pre the gold rush of recyclers)
would be buying old rarities for next to no money because there was no
market for the stuff. You know back ages ago when the economy was good and
you had to PAY people to haul that e-waste out for you.
Heh. If you listen to this crowd, PDP-11s and
ASR33s can be found in
any dumpster or on any street corner anytime, and nobody should ever pay
more than a dollar or two for one. ;)
Only in every fifth dumpster!! :-)
-- 
1:01 a.m.
On 9/14/2012 9:32 PM, TeoZ wrote:
Well I have noticed some stuff that I have a bunch of that used to be
common as dirt tend to dry up in a few years when other people are
looking for them. I would think collectors pre ebay (and pre the gold
rush of recyclers) would be buying old rarities for next to no money
because there was no market for the stuff. You know back ages ago when
the economy was good and you had to PAY people to haul that e-waste
out for you.
In the 90's nobody wanted the stuff other than the metal guys. They
didn't even really care. There weren't really computer collectors. You
couldn't even give it away most times. There were a few USENET groups
you could buy, sell, or give away things but, it was hard. I bought all
of Xerox PARC's surplus once and out of a 53' semi full of stuff I think
75% just ended up with the scrappers or in the trash . I begged people
to take the computers. Wasn't a lot of interest.
1:01 a.m.
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:32 AM, TeoZ <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
You know back ages ago when the economy was good and
you had to PAY people to haul that e-waste out for you.
From the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s, I acquired a
few PDP-11s and
a couple off VAXen that way, but that all dried up over 15 years
ago.
-ethan
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