I was unable to make it to the System Source Swap Meet a few weeks ago due multiple work commitments. Can anyone give a report on how it went? Thanks!
It was pretty cool! Sellers was probably I don't know, 15 or so? Buyer numbers weren't too wild but it's a young event. Like HAMFests it started early which is painful for the night owls :-) Of course being there at the museum it was fun to chat with others and see what people were working on in addition to the new changes at the museum. There was some HAMs operating a digital mode there as well. They had a crank up tower on a trailer. There was definitely some awesome finds. I am glad Mac84 grabbed the IIcx box because I don't need a IIcx box yet but have a box problem, and glad that Reggie grabbed the Roland sampler because it looks like a pretty cool unit and I am out of rack space for another sampler. I picked up plotter art from Paul R. of the Atari logo. I'm going to frame it. The dumb moment for me was unpacking stuff for my sales table (which came to the last swap meet) and finding all the 40 pin IDE and 34 pin floppy ribbon cables I bought at the last swap meet that I forgot about. I was looking for those type of cables a few weeks ago while trying to image some old hard drives. Also, seeing people work on the SGI 4d/480VGX at System Source was <3 ... My 2nd SGI ever was one of those that came out of the NASA LaRC auctions. I bought it via a reseller and remember playing with IRIX in the garage with the computer plugged in where the old hot water heater was in my parents garage. I guess that led me to getting a job at NASA doing IRIX and Solaris admin work. Anyone have a Sun Voyager bag? - Ethan