The Tampa Bay Hamfest is a decent size one with good buyer
turnout. Someone was there last year selling laptops and
desktops loaded with Linux and as I recall did well.
There is a lot of interest in Linux in this area among Hams
and many are already using it. There had been an effort to
make a Linux CD with common utilities and Ham apps,
don't know if that project was ever completed.
I am hoping to acquire a CD with Linux 2.4.14 and Debian
Unstable so that when my experimentation makes a huge
mess I can just reload from it rather than go all the way back
to Progeny and the mess they make of Debian.
Am also going to be looking for a memory upgrade for my
IBM ThinkPad 360cse and a couple of Linux-friendly pcmcia
nics. (I don't expect to find the former but am hoping to get
lucky and locate one or two pcmcia nics at $20. each or less.)
Doc
> On Saturday 10 November 2001 13:44 L, you wrote:
> > At 05:02 PM 11/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this has been posted before, but as the amature radio
> > community has
> > swap meets to buy-sell-trade equipment, perhaps we could as well.
Perhaps
> > one of the
>
> The Tampa Bay Hamfest is coming up on the 1 & 2 of Dec. We could get a
> table there and promote LINUX and sell JUNK. Hams are notorious as junk
> collectors (hey want some old Transit RX boxes??) besides which setting
> up a LINUX box with some good ham SW on it would probably be some good
> advert for our wonderful OS, and pull a few more from the dark side....
>
> Speaking of dark side, I had to do 5 windows installs yesterday.
> 2 WinNT, 2 Win98 and 1 Win2k... Take the Win2k anytime and linux EVERY
> time....
>
> --
> Chuck Hast
> KP4DJT
> kp4djt@tampabay.rr.com
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