I fully agree with your assesment. Unless you are going for an antique, it is not the place to go. Lot's of people selling broken stuff (if it worked most cheap ham ops would keep it in service 'till it broke!) Kelly Black >From: Morgul Nazgul <morgul at real-time.com> >Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >Subject: Re: [TCLUG:22585] Hey hammers, any hamfests coming up? >Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:09:48 -0500 (CDT) > >I've been going to the hamfests for about 10 years. Lately they have been >becoming worthless. It now costs $9 to get in (up $2 from last year) and >$5 or $6 to park. So just for the privledge of looking at >anything, you pay at least $14. Their used stuff is becoming more and >more worthless. Why buy someone's old 20x cdrom when you can get a >earthquake generator mitsumi for $40. General nanosystems usualy shows up >from what I remember so I guess there is that. Last year all I bought was >an infomagic cd set and a mac quadra (which didnt work but I think the >68040 does -- just makes the startup noise). Maybe it will be better this >year but I don't think I will find out. As far as sun stuff goes, there >is usually something there. > > Ross > > > > >On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Chris Opp wrote: > > > > > What kind of computer equipment have they had in the past? I'm looking >for > > Sun Microsystems stuff. Would it be worth my while to go if all I am >looking > > for is computer related and not HAM? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Chris > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org >For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org