[Dprglist] Last ever 1st Saturday Sidewalk Sale coming up June 3

[Doug Paradis]

 I also have a lot of fond memories of 1st Saturday. I was introduced to PC
building by reassembling old IBM PCs I bought for a few dollars. I really
learned a lot. It was also a great place to practice your negotiating
skills and your ability to sort the real junk from the interesting stuff.
When it moved off of Ross avenue, I pretty much stopped going.

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Ed Paradis <legomaniac at gmail.com> wrote:

> I definitely have some formative memories from 1st Saturday. My greatest
> find was a Fluke Oscilloscope that looked like it'd be dropped off the back
> of a truck for $20. It ended up being a pretty nice unit with cursors and
> auto-scaling and worked great. Many a quadrature encoder was debugged with
> that scope.
>
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Jeff Koenig <koenig.jeff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The ending of an era.  I still have a number of semi-rare electronic
>> items I bought there in the '80s and later, all at prices a college student
>> could afford.
>>
>> I still laugh at the sign during the DPRG sale - "Take a free monitor,
>> get a free donut." (I'm probably misquoting it slightly.)
>>
>> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Steve Rainwater <steevithak at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Other DPRG old-timers probably have fond memories of browsing Ham radio
>>> gear, computer parts, and electronic surplus at the Dallas First Saturday
>>> Sale back in the 80s when it was located at Ross Ave. Since then it's been
>>> located under Woodall Rogers and has rebranded itself as the "West End
>>> Night Market". In 2006, the DPRG got a booth there for one sale and
>>> unloaded a lot of our own surplus gear. I got an email from them today
>>> saying they're shutting it down for good and the last ever sidewalk sale is
>>> the one coming up on June 3. The full text of their email is below.
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2017-05-25 at 10:29 -0700, West End Night Market wrote:
>>> > With regrets, the Sidewalk Sale on First Saturday final event will be
>>> > June 3, 2017. What began as a monthly informal parking lot gathering
>>> > for technical people to buy, sell, and trade ham radio and electronic
>>> > gear in 1972 will cease operations. The internet has changed the way
>>> > technical people shop for products and the Sidewalk Sale is the last
>>> > monthly electronic swap meet in the US to cease operations. For over
>>> > a year, we tried unsuccessfully to help someone else take over
>>> > operations and no viable operators have come forth. So now, it is
>>> > time to move on.
>>> >
>>> > It has been FUN! A lot of work, but, jiving with the vendors and
>>> > shoppers has been the best part of it. You will be missed.
>>> >
>>> > We will cooperate fully if some venturesome person wants to continue
>>> > operations - time is of the essence, though, and immediate action is
>>> > required. If you have questions regarding acquisition of operations
>>> > or assets, please send an email to info at sidewalksale.com.  Otherwise,
>>> > we plan to sell the remaining equipment, tables and electrical cords
>>> > at the June 3 event.
>>>
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