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                              More cheese than ham
                                        
We should have gone to the International Map Fair [1] instead. [2] If
anything, this year's Miami HAMFest [3] was smaller and less thrilling than
last year [4] and that's saying something!

Outside the world of PC (Personal Computer)s, there were very few Macs for
sale (one, a Mac laptop, didn't work) and a Sun SPARCStation 2 (but for $100,
no thank you). Even worse, we only saw two (2!) PS/2 keyboards, and only one
for sale seperately from a computer and even then, it had key caps missing
(Mark [5] picked that one up).

The only interesting things I picked up this year were a slide ruler [6] and
a 24-hour analog clock for the Computer Room.

Overall, a very disappointing year

[1] http://www.showtimeinteractive.com/top/1,1419,S-Showtime-Home-X!EventDetail-35354,00.html
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/02/01.1
[3] http://www.hamboree.org/
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2001/02/03.1
[5] http://www.conman.org/people/myg/
[6] http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/kelesson.html

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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