MIT swapfest

Stopped into this just before the last 3 people closed up their tables. What a great little collection of humanity this swapfest is. Cheap CHEAP CHEEEEEEEAP cables to be had here. If you ever need 100 feet of rca cable for 5-10$ this is the place to get it.

I will definitely be attending the next swapfest.

highlights:
a table brought by an ex printer engineer cum swapfest hocker. He had hundreds of motors and position sensing optical doohickeys. He had a lineup of motors all plugged in and spinning different test pattern papers on the tips of the motors. The market for this type of a person is so niche its scary.

read here from sukimons experience at a swapfest in 2006 which obviously had a bit more flavor to delight in.


http://www.sukimon.com/2006/09/yardsale-for-geeks-the-mit-swapfest/


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This coming Sunday...

*** In our Traditional GARAGE and adjacent lot !!!! *****
so rain or shine or super heat the SWAP is ON !!!!

COMPUTERS - ELECTRONICS - HAM RADIO - COMPUTERS - ELECTRONICS

SWAPFEST all SUMMER at MIT
September 16th 2007
9AM-2PM

Come to the Albany St garage for a great SWAP - plenty of free parking.

BUY SELL or SWAP almost anything Electronic

MIT's electronics and ham radio SWAPFEST will take
place on the third Sunday of each month this summer,
April thru October.

There is tailgate space for over 600 sellers and
free, off-street parking for >2000 cars!

Buyers admission is $5 (you get $1 off if
you have a Harvard or MIT ID) and sellers
spaces are $20 for the first and $15 for
each additional at the gate.

The swap will be held at the corner of Albany and
Main streets in Cambridge; right in the Kendall
Square area from 9AM to 2PM, with sellers set-up
time starting at 7AM.

*** Attention Sellers ***
Prepaid vendors.. Season Pass or monthly,
will be admitted FIRST.
Separate lines will form prior to gate opening
for prepaid and nonprepaid vendors

See http://www.swapfest.us for selling info.

!! RAIN or SHINE !! Have no fear of rain, a covered
well illuminated tailgate area is available for all
sellers (6'8" clearance).

Talk-in: 145.23- (PL 88.5) W1BOS/R and
W1XM/R-449.725/444.725 (PL 114.8/2A).

Sponsors: MIT Electronics Research Society
MIT UHF Repeater Association (W1XM)
MIT Radio Society (W1MX)
Harvard Wireless Club (W1AF)

For more info / advanced reservations 617 253 3776

********** $1 buyers discount with hard copy of this notice ************

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Steve Finberg W1GSL w1...@mit.edu
PO Box 82 MIT Br Cambridge MA 02139-7082 617 258 3754
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