On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Marvin wrote:
> Several of us got together at John's selling spots at TRW and used that for
> "command control". The day was really comfortable, and we looked all over
> for cmoputer related bargains. Towards the end, I was wandering around and
> ran across a Multitech Micro-Professor MPF-1P for $10 that was still in the
> box and only missing a ribbon cable to connect the processor board to the
> printer board. For anyone interested, there pictures of it are at:
Yes, Marvin came away with the find of the day (and a damn nice one!)
> I'll leave it to the others to describe what they found there. After the
> meet was over, we headed out to lunch to get more comfortable and discuss
> VCF 3.0, computer collecting, ebay, and other interesting topics!
Those who didn't attend missed out on free VCF t-shirts. ;)
> After lunch, we went over to Johns to check out his collection. Having a
> wall of racks containing computers and peripherals is a really neat thing to
> see. Since John is fast running out of space, I volunteered to remove parts
> of the collection for him to give him more room. But he felt that the Imsai
> and others felt at home there, and as much as he wanted the additional room,
> felt that it would be unfair to the computers to just transplant them
> without any warning. But, as I told him, this was something I would only
> volunteer to do for a friend.
John has got a righteous setup. You L.A. area dudes who didn't show
missed out on a pretty good geek-filled time. John was also very generous
with a bunch of excess hardware. I finally took that AS400 off his hands
he'd been wanting to get out of his patio.
Computer collecting sometimes makes for interesting situations. I wonder
if anyone's ever hauled an AS400 in the back seat of their car up Topanga
Canyon Blvd? :)
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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Received on Mon Apr 26 1999 - 01:40:32 BST