On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 5:56 PM, Ben Sinclair via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 9:13 AM, Jon Tabor via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org >> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:06:03AM +0000, W2HX via cctalk wrote: >> > Dang! I was in Dayton/Xenia also this year... >> >> A bit unrelated, and I'm fairly new to this list, but interesting to see >> so many ham radio operators pop up. I suspect the >> same tinkering desire we get from ham radio is what draws us to old >> computers. >> > I was at Hamvention this year too, though I didn't see as many old computer > items as I did last year!
I've been to Hamvention on and off over the past 38 years. I'd say in general the amount of old computer items has been a fairly steady downward trend the entire time. I got my first PDP-8/L at my first Hamvention. Those early-80s days were *full* of DEC equipment. By the early 90s, that had largely dried up. Still plenty of old stuff but not the old stuff I was after. -ethan