Some did. Possibly not all. I know a local time nut who bought one. There
was some other, older, Austron stuff (2 pieces) that had not sold by about
noon.

Before you ask, I do not know the seller.

FWIW, I asked about the price early on. He didn't know and was playing on
eBay with his iPoo to get a price. I told him LORAN was defunct and he
didn't seem to believe me, so I voted with my feet and shopped elsewhere.
At that time he had 3 2100Fs in a 4 or 5 foot rack in a box truck, plus
some loose stuff.

-John

===============

The young fellow in the white truck quoted me a price for the FS700 as 100$.

My main interest was the ovenized 10 MHz source inside.

I did not see the simulator. That would of tweaked my interest...

I strolled on, looking for the food vendor....

Stan, W1LE    Cape Cod

On 4/15/2012 3:52 PM, J. Forster wrote:

Oh, I can't stand it...from my location in the sticks... really an MIT
flea market??????
real surplus/excess electronics????
Nuttin' like that in western Montana.
'course we do have wide open spaces :-)
Don

Rob Kimberley

--
"Neither the voice of authority nor the weight of reason and argument
are as significant as experiment, for thence comes quiet to the mind."
R. Bacon
"If you don't know what it is, don't poke it."
Ghost in the Shell

Dr. Don Latham AJ7LL
Six Mile Systems LLP
17850 Six Mile Road
POB 134
Huson, MT, 59846
VOX 406-626-4304
www.lightningforensics.com
www.sixmilesystems.com

John
Great wx at MIT today and I did see you with a few bargains. I think the
sun was getting to me plus wheeling dirt around yesterday and today. I am
bushed.
The SRS fs700 was from Kevin and at the start he wanted $150. Glad it found
a home.
I did pickup the simulator for $10 and 2 X 2100Fs and a 2100 each $20. They
all seem to work though someone was messing with the cables internally to
the one of the Fs. After putting them in the correct order the unit was
fine. I always look first before plugging in.
Stan would have been good to meet you. Though as I say it was getting
toasty in the sun.
Lots of smaller bargains also. Odds and ends stuff.
The fellow with the LORAN stuff said it came from a ham that had passed
away. That must have been some time-nut. There were still several austrons
there. 2 X timing rcvrs of the 2000 class and a 2000c. Just to heavy to
carry out. Plus they may have been gold. ;-) I know the HP paper was.
Though I picked up 6 rolls.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Stan, W1LE stanw1le@verizon.net wrote:

Yup. Once a month. Good sized parking lot plus four or five floors of a parking garage. Sounds like there were enough T-N there to have had a gathering! :)

I too looked at all the loran units and decided to pass.

III

On Apr 15, 2012, at 17:45, "Don Latham" djl@montana.com wrote:

Don
It is indeed quite an interesting meet. There are some in San Francisco
with the same feel. Though my Ham friends say that may be kind of in the
past.

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Don Latham djl@montana.com wrote:

Yet another time nut that makes at least 4 at MIT! Thats a very dense
population.

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:52 PM, bownes bownes@gmail.com wrote:

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 05:54:31PM -0400, paul swed wrote:

I sometimes go myself, making at least 5... wasn't there this morning

though...

--
Dave Emery N1PRE/AE, die@dieconsulting.com  DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493
"An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable weatherbeaten
'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted pole - in
celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be now either."

Most of the stuff is private sellers...  not like it's open shopping at
the labs.

Yes, seven times a year;
Third Sunday of every month;
April through October.

-John

==============

I know the HP paper was.

Paul and all: I have two boxes of 9270-1010 Hp paper (about 12"
wide)with 25 rolls in each box, and another box mixed with Honeywell
about the same size. I'd be happy to send some of it to time nuts for
the cost of shipping. I modified my Heathkit chart recorder for the Hp
paper, but might use a whole 2-3 rolls in the time left. Was just ready
to recycle, so please let me know.

Don

"Neither the voice of authority nor the weight of reason and argument
are as significant as experiment, for thence comes quiet to the mind."
R. Bacon
"If you don't know what it is, don't poke it."
Ghost in the Shell

Dr. Don Latham AJ7LL
Six Mile Systems LLP
17850 Six Mile Road
POB 134
Huson, MT, 59846
VOX 406-626-4304
www.lightningforensics.com
www.sixmilesystems.com

It is all over in the bay area. When manufacturing got outsourced, so did the surplus.

A lot of my lab is made up of Foothill and Livermore flea market purchases. (The local Metro PCS tech had the surplus Symetricomm and similar gear.) Foothiil begat the Lockheed parking lot which begat DeAnza. It is mostly junk.

Livermore did good until the community college decided not to allow it to be hosted there. It was moved to a park and ultimately shut down.

The TRW swapmeet is on my bucket list.

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Don
It is indeed quite an interesting meet. There are some in San Francisco
with the same feel. Though my Ham friends say that may be kind of in the
past.

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Don Latham djl@montana.com wrote:

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Six. I know someone who has been to almost as many of them as I have is on
this list. However he rarely posts. Another, which makes seven, has not
been seen lately.

-John

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On 4/15/12 3:09 PM, lists@lazygranch.com wrote:

hmm.. it's not all that wonderful either..

Several problems

1. different processes at large companies that used to buy lots of
   equipment, and then keep it for a while.. now they contract it out to
   equipment rental places, so they don't have the gear on the books.  To
   the ultimate customer, it makes no difference.

2. a much more diverse and rich environment for used gear to flow into.
   the internet has made it easier to put buyers and sellers together

3. different "surplus equipment" policies. along with #1, there's not as
   much company owned gear to be surplused, and the processes don't lend
   themselves to "Bob loading up the truck and taking it down to the
   swapmeet"  Various and sundry ethics rules prevent surplus sales to
   employees (to prevent declaring that brand new VNA as "surplus").
   These days, often they will contract with somone to haul away scrap and
   surplus, and that contractor counts on a good mix of valuable and not so
   valuable.  (At JPL, dumpster diving is a definite no-no)

4. less "user serviceable" stuff in general.  If it breaks, it's scrap,
   not repairable.

On Apr 15, 2012, at 6:09 PM, J. Forster wrote:

Eight, I suppose, though I'm by no means a full-fledged time-nut.

I did score a Julie Research Labs VDR-106 at the MITflea, so I guess I at least qualify as a volt-nut.

I did spot the fellow with the leap-second T-shirt.

Best regards,
-Steve

--
Steve Byan stevebyan@me.com
Littleton, MA 01460

Another at MIT at 1pm only one of the austron 2100's remained unsold

Scott

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 15, 2012, at 8:03 PM, Steve Byan stevebyan@verizon.net wrote: