Anyone attend the MIT flea market last weekend?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed Sep 18 08:02:01 2002

At 11:18 AM 9/17/02 -0400, Jim wrote:
>
>>From: Bob Shannon <bshannon_at_tiac.net>
>> Well, the September Flea is generally one of the largest, as all the
>> freshman have just arrived for the
>> term. But the turn-out was rather light in my opinion, due to the
>> weather reports.
>
>I think the first two had the best turnout, but I missed a couple in
>the middle.
>
>> I arrived rather late, so I don't know what vintage items I may have
>> missed.
>
>I was there at 9 and didn't see anything worth mentioning. It seems
>like a lot of the more interesting sellers start out the summer with a
>few vintagy items amid a mountain of PC/Sun/Apple and, as the summer
>goes on, sell them and are left with mostly PC stuff. Also a lot of
>the smaller guys seem to drop out over the course of the summer.

   I went to the Melbourne hamfest and there was almost no computer stuff there. No Trash-80s, Commie 64s, Ataris, not even much PC stuff. But I did find a SWTPC on a junk table!

    Joe
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