Christian, Sorry to hear of his passing. I don't think I have ever met him. It sounds like he was a true fan of the hobby. It's great to hear stories like this. Jeff On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 8:28 AM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
If you are from NJ and have been to Ham events you may know of Tony Scara. He was a computer tech who lived in Piscataway NJ. He was a collector and fan of vintage technology.
He worked for Electronic Associates, Inc. (EAI), he also worked for another computer company that I forget right now before joining Rutgers University working on computers there.
He had a whole house of machines that slowly dwindled away as people bought them. I couldn't believe his collection.
I purchased a number of items from him ( one of the northstar horizon in VCF's collection came from him as well as an EAI computer), during that time we got to talking and started a friendship.
I brought him to VCF which he enjoyed but he couldn't walk too much because he was in his 80s. We stopped and instead I would share photos and we would talk about machines back then.
I didn't get to see him much in the last few years because of COVID and because he was in his 90s now and so we would talk on the phone.
He didn't get to hang out with us, but he was one of us. He really enjoyed talking about old technology.
I know other people have bought from him, I know other people have met him. I hope you have as fond memories as I do