On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> I went over to the Red Coach Inn around mid-morning. I found
the
> registration desk and a sign said "Admission $3." Well, that
was all I
> needed to see as none of the ads I heard said anything about admission.
I got there about 9 or so, and decided to go on in. I think I
got my
money's worth, though, as I got about 45 feet of ready-to-go coax cable
for $4 (new it's $10 for 10 feet). I also bought a couple used ethernet
cards for my soon-to-be-built LAN.
Most of what was there was used stuff; some old boxes, monitors, memory,
video cards, chips, motherboards, CD-Roms, HD, etc. The middle table
had
several tables of crap, er I mean, software. Another table had
a whole
bunch of shareware disks. The sale wasn't really huge, maybe
15 ish
tables. Makes me wish I knew how much old hardware was worth;
there were
several 486s with 4-16 meg RAM and 100M-1G hard drives. One table
had
about 4 or 5 complete systems for $295: 486, 14" monitor, CD-Rom, etc
(I
don't recall the details).
They had a drawing for a Toshiba laptop and other door prizes; KRZZ
was
just getting set up by the time I left. If I stayed much longer
I
probably would have spent too much money :)
Overall, I thought it was OK. I wouldn't say it'd be worth it for someone
who just wanted to browse -- you'd want to get your $3 worth.
Knowing
what you want and how much it's worth to you helps; to me, some of
the
stuff was a real bargain, other things weren't. It's also a little
bit out
of the way (especially for a south-Seneca dweller). Roads were
good,
though.
"Big up" to Nate Bargmann for letting me/us know about it.
-jeff "I'm not a reporter"
----
Homer: You're selling WHAT, now?
Apu: I am selling only the concept of karmic realignment.
Homer: You can't sell that! Karma can only be portioned out by
the
cosmos. [slams the door]
--Apu: He's got me there.
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