TCF goodies

[John Allain]

Round 2...

> Over all, I was a little disappointed this year in the items available.
> It is only the 2nd time I've gone, the first was two years ago, and I
> remembered there being far more vendors with a better selection.

The TCF may be slowly shrinking, but I'm looking forward to Edison/Raritan
next year, they seemed to have the set-up going verry smoothly there.
...and it didn't smell, like David noted.

Important consideration with these markets: the mainstream is 5yo home
machines and 10yo business servers.  Anything outside of that is
hit-or-miss.

On Topic Finds this year.  My first 10bFL equipment: transcievers from AUI
and cables.  DLT-IV tapes for 75¢ each.  DEC brand SCSI  cables and 10b2
terminators.  A TZ-857 DLT stacker in external enclosure for $25.  One of
those little DDS stackers.  Not bought were decent old books, reel-tapes or
some ASCII terminals.  Yeah, I did get some of the recent stuff.

> I was surprised I couldn't find a decent deal on a rack mount PC
> server,

Wow, what was wrong with those dual PII/PIII ones in the pickup truck?
They had dual ethernet, dual RS-232, Ultra SCSI, were tested right
in front of the purchaser, and started at $40.  Highway robbery (and OT
I realize).  But they seemed rather "pre-Carly".

John A.