Great weather at the Swap Meet!
The current prediction is for 63 degrees and cloudy. Sunday is lots of rain, so that works out well for both the swap meet and the repair workshop. It will be nice to see so many of you there. Haven't seen some of you in a while. I haven't seen some of you for 2 years or more! It looks to be a super successful swap meet and will be great to see all of you there. I hope that someone is selling a soldering iron. One of my friends will be coming to buy a good one. The Steering Committee and myself will be setting up starting at 6AM. Vendors please come at 7AM. Buyers come at 8AM. ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
Well I’m Selling quite a few soldering guns but no “irons”. Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Apr 22, 2021, at 5:02 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
The current prediction is for 63 degrees and cloudy. Sunday is lots of rain, so that works out well for both the swap meet and the repair workshop.
It will be nice to see so many of you there. Haven't seen some of you in a while. I haven't seen some of you for 2 years or more! It looks to be a super successful swap meet and will be great to see all of you there.
I hope that someone is selling a soldering iron. One of my friends will be coming to buy a good one.
The Steering Committee and myself will be setting up starting at 6AM. Vendors please come at 7AM. Buyers come at 8AM.
========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
I just happened to pick up a soldering iron from my local HAM radio club that they want me to sell for them. It's a Velleman VTSS5 temperature controlled soldering iron, and they're asking $10 for it. On Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 5:01 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I hope that someone is selling a soldering iron. One of my friends will be coming to buy a good one.
I was only there for a few hours, but it was so nice seeing people in person again! I wasn’t a big buyer but did snag a couple things that I had not expected to find, and found homes for some items I brought with me, so I came home quite happy. The weather was perfect, of course. There were enough vendors so the buyers could spend time looking for treasures, and I heard from multiple vendors that they were happy with their sales. An excellent day, indeed! Thanks to everyone who volunteered and worked so hard to make it a success! Bob
I agree with Bob, it was a wonderful day, even though I came home sunburned. I too found things that I didn’t think I needed but I was happy to pick up fairly cheaply. I sold quite a few large and heavy items and a lot a little things also, so I am happy! I did tell Jeff Brace that he did a great job organizing this and to everybody else who is involved the same. Surprisingly there were a few Ham Radio guys actually selling ham radio equipment which was a nice addition! I would love for someone to poll them and find out how well they did. Overall it was a very good day, I hope we can do it again in a couple of months. Mike R. Fyi I cannot make it to tomorrow’s workshop Need a day to recuperate. Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Apr 24, 2021, at 6:36 PM, Bob Applegate via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was only there for a few hours, but it was so nice seeing people in person again! I wasn’t a big buyer but did snag a couple things that I had not expected to find, and found homes for some items I brought with me, so I came home quite happy.
The weather was perfect, of course. There were enough vendors so the buyers could spend time looking for treasures, and I heard from multiple vendors that they were happy with their sales.
An excellent day, indeed!
Thanks to everyone who volunteered and worked so hard to make it a success!
Bob
On 4/24/21 6:36 PM, Bob Applegate via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I was only there for a few hours, but it was so nice seeing people in person again! I wasn’t a big buyer but did snag a couple things that I had not expected to find, and found homes for some items I brought with me, so I came home quite happy.
The weather was perfect, of course. There were enough vendors so the buyers could spend time looking for treasures, and I heard from multiple vendors that they were happy with their sales.
An excellent day, indeed!
Thanks to everyone who volunteered and worked so hard to make it a success!
Bob
Dang Bob, must have missed you. I did arrive after 10:30AM. Did get to see a lot of other folks and picked up a 'broken' curiosity from Dean. An Atari 800 drive with an 8031 processor. Interesting little beast I'll have to tear into it and figure it out. Dean, it's not a bit processor like I stated earlier. It is a microcontroller and it was good at moving bytes & bits around. Still a surprise to see it in an Atari drive (Intel family). This isn't the 810 or 1050, my guess it's a Rana drive but I need to look it up. BTW, overall I had fun. Jeff B. and others tried to bend my pinky to attend VCF East in October. I'm looking forward to it. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
So!? Has anyone posted photos yet? Want to see what fun was had! Eugene -----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> On Behalf Of Bob Applegate via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2021 6:36 PM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Bob Applegate <bob@corshamtech.com> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] The Swap Meet was great! I was only there for a few hours, but it was so nice seeing people in person again! I wasn’t a big buyer but did snag a couple things that I had not expected to find, and found homes for some items I brought with me, so I came home quite happy. The weather was perfect, of course. There were enough vendors so the buyers could spend time looking for treasures, and I heard from multiple vendors that they were happy with their sales. An excellent day, indeed! Thanks to everyone who volunteered and worked so hard to make it a success! Bob
I posted 1 pic on VCF facebook page posting. On Sunday, April 25, 2021, 07:54:15 PM EDT, W2HX via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: So!? Has anyone posted photos yet? Want to see what fun was had! Eugene -----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> On Behalf Of Bob Applegate via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2021 6:36 PM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Bob Applegate <bob@corshamtech.com> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] The Swap Meet was great! I was only there for a few hours, but it was so nice seeing people in person again! I wasn’t a big buyer but did snag a couple things that I had not expected to find, and found homes for some items I brought with me, so I came home quite happy. The weather was perfect, of course. There were enough vendors so the buyers could spend time looking for treasures, and I heard from multiple vendors that they were happy with their sales. An excellent day, indeed! Thanks to everyone who volunteered and worked so hard to make it a success! Bob
The swap meet went wonderfully well. It was a lot of work for us to plan and prepare and on the day of. We had a great turnout in terms of both vendors and buyers. The weather was great so that was a plus. I personally scheduled the good weather with the National Weather Service. It was less expensive that you might think. I got a lot of positive feedback from many people. It was a mini reunion of sorts because we haven't seen many people due to Covid times so it was great to see those we haven't seen for over a year, in one case 2 years, another case it was 4 years. We had added ham radio, tv, antique radios to this swap meet which was different than the last one. That helped to increase turnout. A member of CDL (Makerspace at InfoAge) named Martin is helpful to our cause and is a member of ARRL. So he posted to their site our event. So we started to get Ham Radio guys as well as general electronic parts guys coming to the event. We want to continue getting these cross interest groups coming to our event and advertising to their websites. I will have to look at the numbers, but it seems to be 3 times the number of our first swap meet in terms of vendors and people. It's impossible to determine how many general public buyers came, but definitely a lot more. There were spurts of people coming in the front entrance and the back entrance. I was focused on keeping the front gate organized taking money from vendors, from selling our surplus and selling our swag. We were happy to have sold a lot of our surplus inventory helping it find a good home. Dr. Manhattan took care of making sure everyone wore a mask and keeping the giant squid away from our event. We also had the benefit of there being a furniture sale by Selective Seconds (http://www.monmouthresourcenet.org/search/selective-seconds/) right across from us. So there were a lot of people parking in the dirt parking lot directly across from InfoAge, but a little down the road from our parking lot event, then seeing us, walking over to us on the grass field, etc. We are hoping to get in touch with the organizers of that event to do it at the same time. We made a lot of good decisions about the organization of the event that worked out much better than the first time including traffic flow and volunteer coordination. So I will think about and ask for feedback to further improve. In a lot of cases there were people that weren't sure of who we were and if we would have a successful event. This happened with our first swap meet, so many of the skeptics came this time. So in other words each successful event will help spread the word and have a lot of repeat vendors and buyers come as they see how successful it is all-around. There were some new skeptics, but I think they are convinced now. The follow up event, the repair workshop after the swap meet went very well. Most of the usual suspects and some new ones came. They greatly enjoyed working their recent purchases right away instead of putting them away until they had time. We did the usual go out to dinner Saturday night. Sunday another day of repair workshop, bagel, donuts and coffee, WaWa for lunch. Lots of people doing stuff for repairs, also in the museum and warehouse. Plus lots of conversations with people about different things. Also lots of visitors in the museum Saturday (too many for Dylan to count) and a dozen or more on Sunday because I had put a mention of visiting our museum after the swap meet in the advertising. I had done a lot more extensive and different advertising than the first time, so there was a lot of interest. Also I got interviewed by The Coast Star which is a local paper. Thank you everyone who volunteered especially Bill Inderrieden (putting up signs, directing vendors, buyers, packing up, many many other things), Alex Jacocks (great idea about getting the trailer and lots of help with hauling and selling), Jonathan Sturges (also help with hauling and selling), Ben (help at the front desk and gate), Corey (helpful in many ways), Laura help at the front desk and packing up), Dylan (many hours filtering people at the gate), Adam (help with the surplus pile), Andy, Dean for labeling and sorting the surplus. There are more that I forgot to mention, but it's when it becomes a team effort that everything goes smoothly and we are successful. We aren't sure when the next swap meet will be. We are thinking about what will work best with our schedule. VCF East is October 8, 9, 10 and the website will be updated within the next two weeks and ready for registration, etc. On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 6:37 PM Bob Applegate via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was only there for a few hours, but it was so nice seeing people in person again! I wasn’t a big buyer but did snag a couple things that I had not expected to find, and found homes for some items I brought with me, so I came home quite happy.
The weather was perfect, of course. There were enough vendors so the buyers could spend time looking for treasures, and I heard from multiple vendors that they were happy with their sales.
An excellent day, indeed!
Thanks to everyone who volunteered and worked so hard to make it a success!
Bob
Oh I forgot one very important person: Tony! He has been tirelessly going through the warehouse to find, sort and prepare a lot of the inventory surplus. Sorry about that Tony. I'm sure I forgot to thank another person, you know, what's his name ... ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 9:59 AM Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> wrote:
The swap meet went wonderfully well. It was a lot of work for us to plan and prepare and on the day of. We had a great turnout in terms of both vendors and buyers. The weather was great so that was a plus. I personally scheduled the good weather with the National Weather Service. It was less expensive that you might think. I got a lot of positive feedback from many people. It was a mini reunion of sorts because we haven't seen many people due to Covid times so it was great to see those we haven't seen for over a year, in one case 2 years, another case it was 4 years. We had added ham radio, tv, antique radios to this swap meet which was different than the last one. That helped to increase turnout. A member of CDL (Makerspace at InfoAge) named Martin is helpful to our cause and is a member of ARRL. So he posted to their site our event. So we started to get Ham Radio guys as well as general electronic parts guys coming to the event. We want to continue getting these cross interest groups coming to our event and advertising to their websites. I will have to look at the numbers, but it seems to be 3 times the number of our first swap meet in terms of vendors and people. It's impossible to determine how many general public buyers came, but definitely a lot more. There were spurts of people coming in the front entrance and the back entrance. I was focused on keeping the front gate organized taking money from vendors, from selling our surplus and selling our swag. We were happy to have sold a lot of our surplus inventory helping it find a good home. Dr. Manhattan took care of making sure everyone wore a mask and keeping the giant squid away from our event. We also had the benefit of there being a furniture sale by Selective Seconds (http://www.monmouthresourcenet.org/search/selective-seconds/) right across from us. So there were a lot of people parking in the dirt parking lot directly across from InfoAge, but a little down the road from our parking lot event, then seeing us, walking over to us on the grass field, etc. We are hoping to get in touch with the organizers of that event to do it at the same time. We made a lot of good decisions about the organization of the event that worked out much better than the first time including traffic flow and volunteer coordination. So I will think about and ask for feedback to further improve. In a lot of cases there were people that weren't sure of who we were and if we would have a successful event. This happened with our first swap meet, so many of the skeptics came this time. So in other words each successful event will help spread the word and have a lot of repeat vendors and buyers come as they see how successful it is all-around. There were some new skeptics, but I think they are convinced now. The follow up event, the repair workshop after the swap meet went very well. Most of the usual suspects and some new ones came. They greatly enjoyed working their recent purchases right away instead of putting them away until they had time. We did the usual go out to dinner Saturday night. Sunday another day of repair workshop, bagel, donuts and coffee, WaWa for lunch. Lots of people doing stuff for repairs, also in the museum and warehouse. Plus lots of conversations with people about different things. Also lots of visitors in the museum Saturday (too many for Dylan to count) and a dozen or more on Sunday because I had put a mention of visiting our museum after the swap meet in the advertising. I had done a lot more extensive and different advertising than the first time, so there was a lot of interest. Also I got interviewed by The Coast Star which is a local paper.
Thank you everyone who volunteered especially Bill Inderrieden (putting up signs, directing vendors, buyers, packing up, many many other things), Alex Jacocks (great idea about getting the trailer and lots of help with hauling and selling), Jonathan Sturges (also help with hauling and selling), Ben (help at the front desk and gate), Corey (helpful in many ways), Laura help at the front desk and packing up), Dylan (many hours filtering people at the gate), Adam (help with the surplus pile), Andy, Dean for labeling and sorting the surplus. There are more that I forgot to mention, but it's when it becomes a team effort that everything goes smoothly and we are successful.
We aren't sure when the next swap meet will be. We are thinking about what will work best with our schedule.
VCF East is October 8, 9, 10 and the website will be updated within the next two weeks and ready for registration, etc.
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 6:37 PM Bob Applegate via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was only there for a few hours, but it was so nice seeing people in person again! I wasn’t a big buyer but did snag a couple things that I had not expected to find, and found homes for some items I brought with me, so I came home quite happy.
The weather was perfect, of course. There were enough vendors so the buyers could spend time looking for treasures, and I heard from multiple vendors that they were happy with their sales.
An excellent day, indeed!
Thanks to everyone who volunteered and worked so hard to make it a success!
Bob
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