twolazy
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so in the market for an IBM branded Tandon...
I didn't buy that, but I bought the AppleColor 100 motorized RGB monitor from the same booth...so pumped, that's always been my grail monitor for my IIe.Grrr.... which one ya got it? It was first booth at the entrance. Still looking for one...
They were in the free pile....so in the market for an IBM branded Tandon...
Maybe I got there too late, there were some full height hard drives... Upside might have a 2nd machine on the way, will see in a few hours...They were in the free pile....
Oh no i missed these! Where abouts did your see them?I seen two Prolineas for sale.. EISA machines .Was super busy. The crowd this year was insane! Couldn't even get into the YT panel. Was too full. Didn't catch it was downstairs this year (my fault). Great deals all round! Sadly no 360kb full height drives. Upside got all my XT documentation stuff cheap! Basic / Guide / debug 5 bux each with floppies. Even grabbed something from the free pile (Some IBM branded Pascal coding robot stuff. And parking lot HDD man had some good deals. Still kicking my own ass on the IBM 5153 monitor that was 50 bux and needed a recap. Seen a working example for over 250 bux, not paying that. Ended up hanging out with Ben Heck till the panel started lol. Was looking for you Next, but didnt see ya brother. And yet I seemed to miss Texelec... If anyone has a reasonable priced 5153 monitor , let me know before you go home....
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Ah nuts, somehow i totally missed those. I do recall the giant screen MAC too. Will have to open my eyes a bit kore next time and see if they come back next year... thanks for pointing that out!They were in the C room? I think. Room with the Giant CRT g3 *think 21" never seen it before and was geeking) monitor and HP server on the corner... and huge HP server on the walkway next to it, think it was a 5 cpu pentium server? But wasnt for sale sadly... Then exit out of it had a vendor with 3 pentium pros blacks on a card. I offered em a fair offer for 2 of them, but sadly said no. Still on the lookout for 2 Pentium Pro Overdrives.... And a Tandon full height IBM branded 360kb drive. And of course a 5153 monitor...
Thank you so much for arranging the extra parking! I wasn’t one who needed it (this year), but I know many people apparently do, and that has got to be a godsend.As posted above, additional parking has been arranged, about 80 spots: https://vcfmw.org/parking.html
Yes, if you see stuff you want that is inexpensive ($1 for USB stick drives, $2 for a Beta tape, $5 for an IBM USB floppy drive (all of which I bought), etc.) cash is definitely best.Now that I'm here there's a lot of cash-only deals. This is not like VCF West at all.
It was monstrous. Partly because of me. But I promise I won’t bring that much stuff ever again. Even the stuff I have left from Computer Reset doesn’t amount to as much as I brought.However there is a LOT of publicity going around right now for the sheer size of the free pile
I can’t explain how marvelous the free pile is at this convention! I brought an entire 10-foot U-Haul truck so full of stuff to give away (80% of it from Computer Reset). The truck was so full that nothing in the truck had to be strapped in place. I just needed to get a ton of stuff out of my hands to people who wanted it. (Don’t worry that I’m missing out; I still have more than a storage unit worth still in my possession.) And 95% of the stuff I put down was picked up eventually. I took back one book, and that was it. Monitors, terminals, keyboards, wires, cords, a 42-inch projection television, the hundreds of 1984 “Karel the Robot” Pascal textbooks, 30 beaten-up tower cases with various complete and incomplete innards, 12 Zenith VIS 2000 boxes full of miscellanea, about 12 laptops, several dot-matrix printers, and even some stuff donated to the garage sale and auction.We do see a lot of old PCjunktreasures lately. Some people like that stuff!
haha yep we measured 88VAC at our strip! my system froze several times or would give read errors on the drive.. rebooted 10x and not even get a prompt.. Was down for about an hour then magically just started working again. I was surprised the walls didn't set fire with the amount of power everyone was drawing! Hope they get that sorted for next year or go with a bigger venue.the voltage dips were amazing. Some of us could champ through it but it was amazing how many other machines bot linear and switchmode just could not handle 90v or less.
This was an issue. As it turns out there was a hornets nest in the shrubs so you had to disregard the cloud of bees, which I'm sure some people didn't want to get within a mile of.The free pile got so big this year that it had to be extended on to the rear patio in the courtyard.
They were yellow and buzzing around.There were no hornets. There was apparently an underground bee nest under that one bush. However, the bees did not sting a single person that I know of. Perhaps a variety of bee that does not sting.
In terms of cubic feet or cubic meters, there was about the size of a kitchen refrigerator worth of documentation and hardware that was actually trashed. Very, very little compared to everything that went through it. Tax stuff, broken printers, some cords and cables, and some other stuff. The one specific thing I recall was a remote control that rotated your TV antenna on top of your house. It was made of Bakelite.Did everything in the free pile find a home? I'm assuming if pc's were gutted, some stuff would've found it's way to a dumpster. Just curious as to what and how much was tossed?
Next year, do some sightseeing as part of the visit. Probably the first thing you’d like to see is the Galloping Ghost Arcade. They say they are the largest video game arcade in the world. Only 20 minutes or so from the Clarion.This was a fantastic event to visit as a first timer!
I really had a good time, I think there was so much there, I didn't know where to start LOL.
I gave a few items to the auction. I’m curious what they went for. I suppose that’s confidential after the auction, unless the auction video itself goes on YouTube.p.s. Anyone recall what the T2000 sparc, and Vax 3100 ended up going for at auction? I wasn't able to stay ...
Jonathan
I went to Galloping Ghost Friday night after everyone was kicked out at 10pm...ended up staying until the arcade closed at 2amProbably the first thing you’d like to see is the Galloping Ghost Arcade.