At 18:44 21-09-98 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
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>And radio rallies (hamfests). Nowadays most such events in the UK have pile
>upon pile of motherboards, I/O cards, VGA cards, etc on sale. And very
>few 'interesting' machines.
That's true in the States for sure as far as I have seen up here in the
Northeast. Lots of the stuff is just plain unidentifiable to the untrained
eye. Seems there's not that much good old ham gear and military surplus
gear anymore :( The hamfests are overrun with computer related gear now
and not the computer gear I'm into (the non-typical home computer stuff,
i.e., commercial, business, industrial machines.)
I did see an AT/370 boardset about six or eight years ago at the Buffalo
Hamfest. Up to that time I had no clear idea what the heck it was. I saw a
Moto 68K CPU on it and my interest was piqued (I'm into Moto SBC's, OS-9
systems, etc.) The fellow who had the fleamarket space explained what it
was but at that time I was not into collecting classic computer hardware. I
wasn't sure of its condition as it was amongst the heaps of PC boards piled
in his space and refused it ($20 asking price, I think.) Oh well....
--Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA
Member of Antique Wireless Association
URL:
http://www.ggw.org/freenet/a/awa/
Received on Tue Sep 22 1998 - 07:54:19 BST