I also attended. It was the first event I've been to, since March 2020. Of course, my last hamfest was the end of the 2019 season. I was pleased that everyone wore masks and mostly kept distance. A lot of people were glad to see me. I'm surprised sometimes, at who remembers me. Of course I was glad to see my VCFed friends there. Most of the tech was vintage computing from about 1980 forward, not much earlier. On older comp tech: one person showed me a DEC PDP-11 with an RX02 (8 inch floppy drive) they 'scored' that day, for a price too low to mention. A *single* S-100 card, a UVPROM burner, for too much money. Otherwise a mix of C64, Atari, Apple (II and Mac), and that class of stuff; a lot of ISA (Pentium and earlier PC compatible) and some PCI stuff. A little Sun SGI stuff. And a good amount of 10-25 year old PC stuff; plus IBM PC XT boxes. There's usually older stuff of my interests, buried amongst the PC stuff. a good number of CRT monitors from the Apple/Mac world. VCFed had a bunch of stuff to offer, excess vintage and some modern-donated items. I grabbed some Mac and Apple II class items. One TI 99/4A called to me, for its keyboard. Not very much test equipment, there were a few vendors. Usually at a hamfest, one can grab some older but useful and cheap test equipment. I grabbed a little modern stuff, a several year old AMD mobo with RAM and proc. Actually had trouble, finding a medium tower case for it. About embedded computers. Someone obtained an ISA-class industrial computer, a rack-mount box with passive backplane, about the size of a small air conditioner. *That* was industrial computing in 1995. There were a good number of book-sized embedded PC's, with flash-drive OS's, mostly to run some kind of service delivered by the Internet. Some micro ITX thingies. I grabbed a few of them to mess with. So I had a good morning there. I didn't linger to chat at length. That will come later. I'll make a Web page of the experience, with some photos. Regards, Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT comcast DOT net
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