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Never heard of having to register in order to visit a flea market as a potential customer.
It’s mainly to figure out how many people are coming! We have limited space at c-base and I want to be respectful of their fire code!
Never heard of having to register in order to visit a flea market as a potential customer.
It’s mainly to figure out how many people are coming! We have limited space at c-base and I want to be respectful of their fire code!
I did not know about c-base either. Are there similar associations throughout Europe? I'd love to join one — seems to have a very cool hacker-y spirit :)
Related events in other cities? To start: * US Boston / New England area -- MIT Swapfest, http://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/
Good luck with the swapfest! Back in the day I loved to visit these kinds of shows in the Timmonium, Maryland area. Went to Gaithersburg once, too. If you were motivated to dig through cardboard boxes of cables and miscellaneous stuff, you could spend the entire day there. But as the internet grew they got smaller every year, to the degree that there wasn't much of a point anymore. While I never got to one, I recall…
And as it's slightly on topic, a brief humorous story. At least one of the two annual Timonium shows was sponsored by the local Ham Radio (amateur radio) club. This was common because (I suppose) the radio clubs were typically bigger and more organized than the computer clubs. When I was in my 20's it was a rite of passage for some of my friends to get their Ham Radio license.
Fast forward to around 2007 and my sister and I are driving to Phoenixville in eastern Pennsylvania for Blobfest. Getting off topic, but it's an annual celebration of the classic 1958 sci-fi/horror film The Blob.
On the way back I notice a sign on the side of the road that reads "Ham Fest Today". I go a little crazy, telling my sister, "Turn there! Turn there!! I have to see this!!!" We turn and it's a bust. The show was the previous weekend and somebody forgot to take down the sign.
We get back on the road. About a minute later she turns to me, completely innocently and wide-eyed, saying, "I had NO IDEA how much you liked ham!"
This looks really cool! Might do a few hours travel to join. I did not know about c-base either. Are there similar associations throughout Europe? I'd love to join one — seems to have a very cool hacker-y spirit :)
Back I my days, on electronics or computer fairs , there were “trash seller” , where you could buy non-working equipment by weight , and we repaired some at home
This sounds awesome. But it’s sadly the Easter weekend. Family has other plans on this longer weekend.