[Milsurplus] Golden years of collecting?

[J. Forster]

I think the last 10 to 20 years have been a golden age. There is still a
fair amount of hardware around, but, more importantly, the Xerox machine 
and the internet have made the information available.

-John

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> The prices are always better and there is never any shipping cost at a
> Hamfest. I have been going to fests for around thirty to thirty five years
> now and have seen many changes and every year hear the same lament; it was
> bigger last year and will be gone soon. Back in the eighties and early
> nineties everyone was convinced that it was all going to be computers and
> hamfest as we know them are finished, but as long as fest like Timonium
> and Dayton are there I will be too. EBay has provided me many items I
> would never have found on my own. The last couple months I have been
> buying antique computer hardware and can think of no other source, wonder
> what ever happened to the Trenton Computer Fest? The internet, web pages
> and email reflectors and maybe companies like EBay have only improved
> hobbies and collecting and have to wonder when was this golden age of
> military radio collecting and when were things so much better then now?
> Maybe in the late forties and early fifties there was
>  a lot of surplus around but the armature community in general only wanted
> to hack that stuff and forgot about it as soon as store bought equipment
> became cheap and plentiful.
> Ray Fantini KA3EKH
>
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