#mitflea — Public Fediverse posts

#BostonWeekend Sun SWAPFEST As #MIT' clears out their dorms and labs for the summer, you'll find bargains on the weirdest collection of stuff. Perfect morning to hang out in a parking lot, bring a printed flyer for a buck off admission. and post to the #Swapfest tag if you find something super cool. Get there early, some dealers are packing up by 1 https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/ #CambridgeMA #Boston #MITFlea

#BostonWeekend Sun SWAPFEST As #MIT' clears out their dorms and labs for the summer, you'll find bargains on the weirdest collection of stuff. Perfect morning to hang out in a parking lot, bring a printed flyer for a buck off admission. and post to the #Swapfest tag if you find something super cool. Get there early, some dealers are packing up by 1 https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/ #CambridgeMA #Boston #MITFlea

#BostonWeekend Sun SWAPFEST As #MIT' clears out their dorms and labs for the summer, you'll find bargains on the weirdest collection of stuff. Perfect morning to hang out in a parking lot, bring a printed flyer for a buck off admission. and post to the #Swapfest tag if you find something super cool. Get there early, some dealers are packing up by 1 https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/ #CambridgeMA #Boston #MITFlea

#BostonWeekend Sun SWAPFEST As #MIT' clears out their dorms and labs for the summer, you'll find bargains on the weirdest collection of stuff. Perfect morning to hang out in a parking lot, bring a printed flyer for a buck off admission. and post to the #Swapfest tag if you find something super cool. Get there early, some dealers are packing up by 1 https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/ #CambridgeMA #Boston #MITFlea

#BostonWeekend Sun SWAPFEST As #MIT' clears out their dorms and labs for the summer, you'll find bargains on the weirdest collection of stuff. Perfect morning to hang out in a parking lot, bring a printed flyer for a buck off admission. and post to the #Swapfest tag if you find something super cool. Get there early, some dealers are packing up by 1 https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/ #CambridgeMA #Boston #MITFlea

#BostonWeekend Sun MAY 2nd - this event has passed - REPAIRCAFE get it fixed at #artisansasylum's Fixit Clinic from 11-2 I went last time around and got my stand mixer going again and they hooked me up with the 'right' wall wart for an electronics curb find. Not just electronics! Volunteer or just hang out - a2 has Good people. In Brighton. https://www.instagram.com/p/DXo7JDcjd92/ #Boston #FixitClinic #RepairCafe #RightToRepair #SwapFest #MITFlea

#BostonWeekend Sun MAY 2nd - this event has passed - REPAIRCAFE get it fixed at #artisansasylum's Fixit Clinic from 11-2 I went last time around and got my stand mixer going again and they hooked me up with the 'right' wall wart for an electronics curb find. Not just electronics! Volunteer or just hang out - a2 has Good people. In Brighton. https://www.instagram.com/p/DXo7JDcjd92/ #Boston #FixitClinic #RepairCafe #RightToRepair #SwapFest #MITFlea

#BostonWeekend Sun MAY 2nd - this event has passed - REPAIRCAFE get it fixed at #artisansasylum's Fixit Clinic from 11-2 I went last time around and got my stand mixer going again and they hooked me up with the 'right' wall wart for an electronics curb find. Not just electronics! Volunteer or just hang out - a2 has Good people. In Brighton. https://www.instagram.com/p/DXo7JDcjd92/ #Boston #FixitClinic #RepairCafe #RightToRepair #SwapFest #MITFlea

#BostonWeekend Sun MAY 2nd - this event has passed - REPAIRCAFE get it fixed at #artisansasylum's Fixit Clinic from 11-2 I went last time around and got my stand mixer going again and they hooked me up with the 'right' wall wart for an electronics curb find. Not just electronics! Volunteer or just hang out - a2 has Good people. In Brighton. https://www.instagram.com/p/DXo7JDcjd92/ #Boston #FixitClinic #RepairCafe #RightToRepair #SwapFest #MITFlea

#BostonWeekend Sun MAY 2nd - this event has passed - REPAIRCAFE get it fixed at #artisansasylum's Fixit Clinic from 11-2 I went last time around and got my stand mixer going again and they hooked me up with the 'right' wall wart for an electronics curb find. Not just electronics! Volunteer or just hang out - a2 has Good people. In Brighton. https://www.instagram.com/p/DXo7JDcjd92/ #Boston #FixitClinic #RepairCafe #RightToRepair #SwapFest #MITFlea

Trying out some of the hardware I picked up at MIT Swapfest today. A new memory card for my //gs (really just needed one chip but the price was right), a Booti disk emulator, a A2CDVI adapter to give my //c an HDMI port, and a mouse for the //c. #retrocomputing #mitflea

#BostonWeekend If you're in town this weekend, consider coming to the #MITFlea aka the #MIT #Swapfest on Sunday 4/19 - the #Boston fediverse community is meeting up for an informal social - at noon, rain or shine. Come to #Bostodon!
#Meetup #CambridgeMA #HamRadio

@J_Peregrine #Bostodon and thus #Swapfest / #MITFlea happens at the #MIT Albany st garage in #CambridgeMA https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/ this Sunday at noon April 19 - #BostonMarathon weekend! #boston #massachusetts

#BostonWeekend Let's meetup! On Sunday 4/19 at noon is #Bostodon meetup at #Swapfest/#MITFlea in #CambridgeMA - Are you in? Get there early and buy the best weird tech finds of the year.

#Boston area folks, follow the #Bostodon tag and please boost. #swapfest #MITFlea #MIT

No dice. I tried two different disks, one with FreeDOS 1.4 and another with MS-DOS 6.22. The laptop drive doesn't recognize either of them as a system disk.

This looks like something to sell at the #MITFlea / #Swapfest to someone who wants a project.

I'm sure I'm missing something this week. Its Spring, y'all! I hope to get out a bit more with the warm weather. April 19th, #Bostodon meetup at #MITFlea - mark your calendar! #BostonWeekend

Starting to make my bin(s) for #mitflea / #swapfest next month. Hoping to get some gear from old curriculums and spare parts from projects out of the house!

I picked up two #StreetPass visits this past weekend at the MIT Flea. One a repeat from a previous Flea, and one new. Lots of new puzzle pieces!

I had a StreetPass sign up at my tables, and a lot of people stopped to comment on it. Chatted about favorite games, what got us into video gaming ... really nice people. Most didn't have a *DS on them, but said they'd bring it along in the spring.

#3DS #MITFlea

In reality, I never played Out Run as a kid. But I did play a *LOT* of Rad Racer on my relatives' NES, and I loved the game. I picked this up yesterday at the MIT Flea/Swapfest yesterday, after I packed up my tables and did a quick run over to visit some other vendors I'm acquainted with.

The sticker on this one reads $12, but the vendor told me to give him $10 so he didn't need to make change. Happy to do so.

#MITFlea #Swapfest #NES #Retrogaming

Found this PII Dell tower for $40 at the MIT Flea today. Also got a power cable, mouse, and keyboard for it while I was there. 450mhz and 256mb RAM. Hoping I can use this to make a decent late '90s gaming PC. I think the seller said it has some sort of ATI Rage graphics card but I might need to get a better one.

I don't have space for a CRT right now. I'm going to try to hook it to my monitor with a VGA to HDMI adapter.

#MIT #MITFlea #boston #CambridgeMA #retro #retrocomputing #retrogaming

Good morning from the MIT Flea!

I've already sold both of my Power Macintoshes. So much floor space recovered!

Great stuff here today. A table at the entrance has at least half a dozen Trash Can Macs!

#MITFlea #Retrocomputing

RE: https://mastodon.social/@GamesMissed/115378712152262192

Just a reminder: stop by and say hi at the MIT Flea / Swapfest tomorrow morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts! I'm happy to chat, you can poke at old and underpriced computers, and I might even convince you to take some free stuff!

#BostonWeekend #Swapfest #MITFlea #Retrocomputing

1st Addendum (I'm sure there will be more):

I'll have a few Skylanders Starter Packs for the Xbox 360. $5 will get you the disc in case, a portal, and two Skylanders. Did you recently pick up a cheap 360 to jailbreak it? Why not pick up a complete game with cool figurines?

#Skylanders #Xbox360 #Retrogaming #Swapfest #MITFLea

The last MIT Flea / Swapfest of the year is this coming Sunday, October 19th. I will be selling! I want stuff out of my home! All unreasonable offers will be entertained and/or entertaining!

Among other things I will have are:

- a Power Macintosh 7200/90 with a 300 MHz G3 upgrade card

- a 400 MHz G4 Graphite desktop, in its original box

- a Miyoo PocketGo, the predecessor to the Miyoo Mini (i.e., a #GameDad)

#BostonWeekend #MITFlea #Swapfest #Retrocomputing #VintageMac

This year, I went from having zero #PowerPC computers to four (this is objectively too many Macintoshes; would you like one?).

Three of them internal Zip drives. I hadn't owned a Zip disk in decades. Do those drives work? Who knows?

To answer the question, this month I purchased a 100 Mbyte Zip disk at the #MITFlea for $1. Today, while trying to get work done, I'll be shuffling the systems around the office to test the drives, and the disk. What are my likely outcomes?

#Retrocomputing

And, if you're in the #Boston area and would like either of these, you're welcome to take them off my hands at the #MITFlea in October.

#Retrocomputing #DotMatrix

I did not mean for there to be a ten hour delay between that first post and the rest of the thread. The day got away with me.

So, late but not never:

Today's #MITFlea / #Swapfest wasn't as busy as I'm accustomed to. I was surprised at that, as were some of the vendors that I spoke with. Still, it was a good time, and I had a lot of fun conversations.

I'm at the #MITFlea today! Mute me if you like, thread with photos to follow.

#Boston #Retrogaming #Retrocomputing

#boston #fediverse Meetup TODAY ~noon - check/follow this tag #Bostodon for any updates
#Swapfest #MIT #Meetup #Mastodon #CambridgeMA
directions and discount flyer: https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/
Maybe Area Four (outdoor seating, pizza and coffee) if desired; MIT Museum free today also! Check thread before you head over.
Meet first floor garage outside the Flea admission gate. #MITFlea #FleaAtMIT #BostonWeekend

I'll be arriving at the #MITFlea / #Swapfest at around 9:30 this morning. It's cold enough that I can break out a hat for the first time this season. If you see a tall man wearing this, it's me - say hi, if you like!

#Bostodon

I will be attending the #MITFlea / #Swapfest tomorrow (Sunday, September 21st). I may buy a Zip disk for $1. Otherwise, I'm attending just to see the fun things. I'll try and post photos as I go.

@knizer had discussed a #Boston meetup at the Flea as well. I'm going to try and arrive at 9 or so in the morning, but I'll be there for a few hours. Hope to see some of you there!

Q: Whats the #mastodon thing to wear or carry to signify that you're One Of Us there for a meetup?

Everybody at #Swapfest / #mitflea 'looks the part' of a mastodon user 🤣
#Bostodon 250921 #boston

Another Power Macintosh! And again, delivered by a relative clearing out an attic/closet/secret lair.

Did I ever mention that I was a PC person back in the '90s? I had almost no exposure to this stuff. And now I have ... too many of them. Going to need to find good homes for them, or sell them cheap at the #MITFlea

Here are the gory* photographs:

*not actually gory

🧵 1/8

#Retrocomputing #PowerMac #PowerPC #Beige

[Thread Necromancy! Probably doesn't count as such, since it's only two days later. But, if I don't continue with this thread soon, I'm going to lose mental momentum and it might never happen.]

Here are the small things I picked up at the #MITFlea for myself this past Sunday.

I bought two #NES cartridges together for $20. Having found my 20-inch CRT television at the beginning of the summer (https://mastodon.social/@GamesMissed/114706137345375394), I find myself playing on my spouse's childhood NES a lot more.

#Retrogaming

Good morning from the #MITFlea ! Does anyone need an 8-track player? And tapes?

I'll be at the #MITFlea / #Swapfest tomorrow morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts. If you see a large man walking around in an orange Mill Forge Makerspace shirt, that's likely me. Say hi, if you like! I'll have my #3DS on me as well, if you want to trade Streetpass pings.

I'm not looking for anything in particular, it's just a fun event to visit. I'll try and get photos of the good stuff and post it here as a thread.

#NewEnglandVintageComputing #Boston #Retrocomputing

Hoping to hit the MIT Flea / hamfest on Sunday Aug 17th. Let me know fo you want to meet up! https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/ #cambridgema #mit #hamr #mitflea

Some #Swapfest highlights:
bandsaw carved book safes
SGI O2
UV Light magnifying glass
Original Cricut + accessories ($10)
very light Univega 10 speed with drops and downtube shifters, bronze color, $35 make me an offer
crazy well built 70$ Pyle Laptop DJ stand that the guy next to me bought for $10 after I picked it up to figure out what it was
Guy with maybe 10 different kinds of stapleguns
lady with half a dozen different kinds of piano keyboards
RICM!

Alas, 0 #laserdisc players (lmk if you have a lead on one for a friend) #CambridgeMA #MITFlea

#BostonWeekend 37/x Sun TECH, ETC - The Flea at MIT - #Swapfest - returns. 9a-1p, 6$ doors, come earlier in the day for best selection, bring cash, haggle. Its an experience - everything that those weirdo MIT types would want to sell or buy, tons of vintage tech. See past threads under this hashtag.
https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/
#MIT #MITFlea #swapmeet #CambridgeMA #Boston

#BostonWeekend 37/x Sun TECH, ETC - The Flea at MIT - #Swapfest - returns. 9a-1p, 6$ doors, come earlier in the day for best selection, bring cash, haggle. Its an experience - everything that those weirdo MIT types would want to sell or buy, tons of vintage tech. See past threads under this hashtag.
https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/
#MIT #MITFlea #swapmeet #CambridgeMA #Boston

#BostonWeekend 37/x Sun TECH, ETC - The Flea at MIT - #Swapfest - returns. 9a-1p, 6$ doors, come earlier in the day for best selection, bring cash, haggle. Its an experience - everything that those weirdo MIT types would want to sell or buy, tons of vintage tech. See past threads under this hashtag.
https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/
#MIT #MITFlea #swapmeet #CambridgeMA #Boston

#BostonWeekend 37/x Sun TECH, ETC - The Flea at MIT - #Swapfest - returns. 9a-1p, 6$ doors, come earlier in the day for best selection, bring cash, haggle. Its an experience - everything that those weirdo MIT types would want to sell or buy, tons of vintage tech. See past threads under this hashtag.
https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/
#MIT #MITFlea #swapmeet #CambridgeMA #Boston

#BostonWeekend 37/x Sun TECH, ETC - The Flea at MIT - #Swapfest - returns. 9a-1p, 6$ doors, come earlier in the day for best selection, bring cash, haggle. Its an experience - everything that those weirdo MIT types would want to sell or buy, tons of vintage tech. See past threads under this hashtag.
https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/
#MIT #MITFlea #swapmeet #CambridgeMA #Boston

Today's #MITFlea seemed to be very #Apple-heavy. I saw two working #IIgs systems for sale, complete with drives and monitors and everything. There were two trashcan Macs for sale, and one was gone by the time I was leaving. And this iBook looked to be in amazing shape.

#Apple #Macintosh #Retrocomputing

As @knizer reminded people today, the #MITFlea / #Swapfest is this coming Sunday, the 21st (https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/).

I just today picked up this CRT for free, offered to anyone who would carry it off. It's a ViewSonic E790, could use a wipe-down of the plastic surfaces, but the picture is bright and clear and it's running well.

To anyone attending the SwapFest on Sunday, it's yours for free to go to a good home. I can hand it off to you there.

#Retrocomputing #NewEnglandVintageComputing

I'm heading to the #MITFlea / #Swapfest this coming Sunday morning. Be nice to find an ADB keyboard for my Apple IIgs, maybe even some software on disk.

Anyone else going to be there?

#NewEnglandVintageComputing #Retrocomputing

I visited the MIT Flea today! A great selection of vintage '70s and '80s computers this time. I saw people happily boxing up VIC-20s and TRS-80s to take home. This is going to be a thread of some of what I saw, followed by what I ended up with myself.

#NewEnglandVintageComputing #MITFlea

I'm going to be selling for the first time at the #MITFlea on April 21st. I am clearing out a lot of hardware that has been taking up a back corner for too long. Most of it even works! A lot of it is relatively modern and working (i.e., you can install at least Windows 10, or any modern flavor of Linux), some of it is leaning retro: working 3.5" drives, an original Macintosh carrying case, and this Intellimouse that I pulled out of a box today.

#newenglandvintagecomputing