On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Doug LaRue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** Reply to message from Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 07 May > 2008 23:54:16 -0700 > >> Wow. I had totally forgot about the Pomona computer show. > > it was a great place to get deals on hardware and software. You could > tell what the hot items were because you'd see those products all over > the show and each vendor was priced to compete with the others. From > what I heard, alot of the small PC vendors in the LA to Riverside areas > got together and purchased a particular product in bulk from over > seas and at great discount. So you might normally have seen large 17" > monitors in the $500 range at previous shows and at any local PC vendor. > But then, a couple of dozen vendors at the Pamona show would have > Viewsonic 17's in the $300 range. The next show that deal was gone and > it was 386/40 mobo's or Fahrenheit video cards. It was a blast but > very expensive. > > Oh, and with the popularity of the CDROM and cheap readers, the > porn section ballooned and eventually was segmented off behind a > curtain. But so grew the open source market with Hobbes and Linux > CDs at good prices. Because downloading so much over 2400baud > was still a pain, often failed, and time consuming. > > Doug
San Diego had a small one too. Used to be held at the Scottish Right Temple in Mission Valley. Went there a few times, had pretty good deals. Anyone head out to the Santee swap? Haven't been there in years, bought plenty of radio stuff out there. -- Mark Schoonover, CMDBA http://www.linkedin.com/in/markschoonover http://marksitblog.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
