[olug] Re: Millard Computer Fair

[William Langford]

Ever since the show that was moved to the Armory (and then shut down 
because of 9/11), the shows have proven to be... moot.  Finding anything 
other than what you'd see DIT is becoming increasingly difficult.  There 
are some vendors who show up with older goods and grab-boxes of old 
cards that can be fun to rummage through... but... there's little 
intrigue left.  I have little desire to see case mods or overpriced 
software.

I've got a quad xeon, quad ppro, and a alphastation 500 400mhz that I 
would like to sell, but I know that taking them to the MCF because no 
one goes there looking for 'interesting' hardware anymore.

-Will

OBrien, Timothy (Omaha Linux Users Group - OLUG) wrote:

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>>Has the Millard Computer Fair been interesting at all over the last 3-6
>>months ? I've not been due to it's extreme lack of variety.  Not to
>>mention the lack of interesting items.
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>Any PC fair or swap meet is hit or miss. I went to a few back east and
>they had nothing compared to Millard. Sometimes I go to millard and there
>is nothing, other times it is a gold mine. It all depends on which vendors
>show up & what they have to bring. Some vendors stopped showing up because
>not enough people were coming through the door - did not matter that some
>did not purchase anything, but the appearance of many people attending the
>fair made the vendors feel 'warm & fuzzy'.
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>When are you showing up at the Fair? Sometimes the 'best' stuff is gone
>shortly after opening.
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>You looking for anything specific?
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>[full disclosure: sometimes I get a table at the Millard Computer Fair to
>sell my extra stuff, and do what I can to promote this unique resource;
>but I do not benefit in any way from the vendors that run & operate
>Millard Computer Fair.]
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>Timothy "Irish" O'Brien
>Publicity & Social activities chairperson
>Omaha Linux User's Group (OLUG)
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