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] /boston/2002/02/01.1 | [3] http://www.hamboree.org/ | [4] /boston/2001/02/03.1 | [5] http://www.conman.org/people/myg/ | [6] http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/kelesson.html

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