Trenton Computer Festival

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Tue May 6 09:34:00 2003

> Sounds like there was FAR more to be had on Saturday than
> Sunday when I went. I don't think I saw ANY Apple 2 stuff at all

I went Saturday-not-Sunday and _was_ impressed, but for mostly
the _wrong_ reasons, IE, not too much Classiccmp, but some good
ready to use stuff.
Going over my list of purchases, here's what I bought Jurclassicwise:
    2-inch Sony microfloppies
    Sun 13w3 cable.
    D.G. SCSI terminator. period.
and not:
    some guy's personal DVD's (scored: "Pi", "Enigma")
    USB and HD25 adaptors.
    1 complete working UPS in 2 pieces, $10
    white light 4LED flashlight, decent cheap Binoculars, chinese tools
    etc.

I saw a DecWriterIII sell before 10am. There was 1 guy with everything
old (5-10 years old, UG) but cheap, two HP SCSI storage enclosures &
drives $5 each, lotza hubs and switches. Some Sun Ultra, HP Pentium
Pro systems, not much. 1 indigo. 1 Alpha (period), memory raped.
There were a LOT of parts for refurbushing your own UPS, about 5 sellers.
One guy had Pentium pro,II-233,II-300 chips, $2.00 each (where classic is
now apparently. *Warning*).

It may rebound some after the Tech bust is over.

Worth a trip (140 miles round for me), but Not if you Only want to buy
classiccmp. There may be a market for Selling, If you've got the nack.

John A.
Received on Tue May 06 2003 - 09:34:00 BST