Subj : Vintage Computer Fair
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Commodore Clifford
Date : Thu Aug 11 2022 00:03:48

On 07 Aug 22  09:34:00 poindexter FORTRAN wrote...

PF> I went to the Vintage Computer Fair this weekend. Quite a bit smaller
PF> than  when I went a couple of years ago, which is to be expected.
PF> 
PF> What I didn't expect was exorbitant prices for used crap - lots of
PF> semi-  broken crap, and horrendously yellow overpriced retro PCs,
PF> like a $400 IBM  PC, and $180 13" CRT monitor.
PF> 
PF> I think of all of the 8088/80286 crap that I tossed out over the
PF> years, I  wish I'd had storage space for them all.
PF> 
PF> Notably, I had an IBM PC XT, a Compaq Portable II, an AT&T 6300, and
PF> an  Osborne 1 that I wish I'd kept. Oh, and a generic 286 desktop
PF> with 4 mb of  RAM that I set up a MINIX server on back in 1995.
PF> 
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To which Commodore Clifford replies...

Which VCF was it?  Hoping to still hit VCF Midwest in September.

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