A great show, as always!
Got there
very early Friday morning, set up my tent, and managed to get a few hours of sleep. Lots of buyers and sellers there, and a great selection of stuff. The ever-so-blasphemous bonfire on Friday night was quite incendiary, as somewhere around 20 beat-up wooden cabinets met their maker in grand fashion. Weather on both days was pretty good, barring some brief periods of light rain (mostly at night, when I was in the tent). Can't wait for the spring!
Be sure to let us know what you buy.
Absolutely!
On the radio end of things, I bought a
RCA 2-X-621 bakelite table radio which covers both AM and shortwave for $35, plus a
Heathkit GR-21 FM table radio with its
matching multiplexer for $40. On the audio end of things, I managed to score a Kenwood KD-3055 turntable in rough shape (broken dust cover, tarnished trim) for all of $5, as well as a
Sony VC-7P moving coil phono cartridge for $70. Technically my first moving-coil cartridge, though the cartridge used in my
Pioneer PL-88FS might be similar.
On the video game end of things, I found a boxed
Magnavox Odyssey 300 for $5; the system inside is in rough shape, but the packaging should go nicely with the
Odyssey 300 I already had which I got signed by
Ralph Baer. I also bought a Jameco ASCII keyboard, a bunch of Betamax tapes, and a couple of LaserDiscs. My 'big' score at the show was yet another
oddball keyboard instrument, an
Ace-Tone S-3 "Canary" transistor organ, which I got for $60. Apparently a solid-state version of the
Clavioline, it was one of the first products from the company which would later become
Roland. Haven't tested it yet, but it seems to be in pretty good shape overall.
-Adam