<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div> 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. <div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Ed Paradis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:legomaniac@gmail.com" target="_blank">legomaniac@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Jeff Koenig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:koenig.jeff@gmail.com" target="_blank">koenig.jeff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br><br></div>I still laugh at the sign during the DPRG sale - "Take a free monitor, get a free donut." (I'm probably misquoting it slightly.)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-2115249335932920467h5">On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Steve Rainwater <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steevithak@gmail.com" target="_blank">steevithak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-2115249335932920467h5"><div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>-Steve</div><div><div><br></div><div><div>On Thu, 2017-05-25 at 10:29 -0700, West End Night Market wrote:</div><div>> With regrets, the Sidewalk Sale on First Saturday final event will be</div><div>> June 3, 2017. What began as a monthly informal parking lot gathering</div><div>> for technical people to buy, sell, and trade ham radio and electronic</div><div>> gear in 1972 will cease operations. The internet has changed the way</div><div>> technical people shop for products and the Sidewalk Sale is the last</div><div>> monthly electronic swap meet in the US to cease operations. For over</div><div>> a year, we tried unsuccessfully to help someone else take over</div><div>> operations and no viable operators have come forth. So now, it is</div><div>> time to move on.</div><div>> </div><div>> It has been FUN! A lot of work, but, jiving with the vendors and</div><div>> shoppers has been the best part of it. You will be missed.</div><div>> </div><div>> We will cooperate fully if some venturesome person wants to continue</div><div>> operations - time is of the essence, though, and immediate action is</div><div>> required. If you have questions regarding acquisition of operations</div><div>> or assets, please send an email to <a href="mailto:info@sidewalksale.com" target="_blank">info@sidewalksale.com</a>. Otherwise,</div><div>> we plan to sell the remaining equipment, tables and electrical cords</div><div>> at the June 3 event. </div></div></div></div>
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