Trenton State Computer Festival

From: Tom Owad <owad_at_applefritter.com>
Date: Sun May 6 18:38:43 2001

>Most of the DEC stuff in the area cleared through Trenton over 4 year ago.
>The show had tons of PDP8's and PDP11/23's and 11/34's and MicroVaxes
>back in the late 80's.

I found the show disappointing. It wasn't nearly as good as previous
years - and I can't tell you how many times the dealers told me how much
they could get for the item I was interested in on eBay. (Hint: more
than I was willing to pay.)

The only semi-interesting items I bought that comply with the 10-year
rule were an ugly Mac 512k with a SCSI upgrade for $1 and a nice SCSI
floppy drive for the Mac for $5. Aside from a couple Apple IIe's, I only
saw two 8-bit systems: a Commodore 64 and a TI-99/4a. I bought the
Commodore for $1.

I passed on what looked like a Vax (I wasn't entirely sure - it was about
half missing and in horrible condition) for $600 and also passed on a $70
Apple IIgs.

Tom

P.S. Anybody have some cheap 70ns RAM for a DEC 3000?

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Received on Sun May 06 2001 - 18:38:43 BST