Subj : Vintage Computer Fair
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Aug 07 2022 09:34:00

I went to the Vintage Computer Fair this weekend. Quite a bit smaller than 
when I went a couple of years ago, which is to be expected.

What I didn't expect was exorbitant prices for used crap - lots of semi- 
broken crap, and horrendously yellow overpriced retro PCs, like a $400 IBM 
PC, and $180 13" CRT monitor.

I think of all of the 8088/80286 crap that I tossed out over the years, I 
wish I'd had storage space for them all.

Notably, I had an IBM PC XT, a Compaq Portable II, an AT&T 6300, and an 
Osborne 1 that I wish I'd kept. Oh, and a generic 286 desktop with 4 mb of 
RAM that I set up a MINIX server on back in 1995.


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