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

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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

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Steve Byan stevebyan@me.com
Littleton, MA 01460

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

Scott

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