My best friend Jeff, his Dad, and I spent this morning hanging out at the local electronics flea market, and then I gave them an additional whirl-wind tour of all the south bay electronics stores they haven’t been to before.

Silicon Valley Electronics Flea Market

My haul for today was pretty good. From left to right in the picture:

  • Free QST magazines from the early 1990s
  • 75 cents for a sharpening stone
  • Free resistors (4.7k, 10k, 47, 5.1M)
  • $10 for an 8 port gigabit ethernet switch (win!)
  • $2 for a working Gameboy Color (NOSTALGIA WIN!) - If anyone wants to donate old games to the cause…
  • $5 for two screw terminal blocks and two UHF connectors
  • $2 for 10 Neon glow tubes
  • $2 for a 512kb UV EPROM
  • $4 for a 802.11bg PCI card
  • $1 for 5 6-series vacuum tubes

There were a lot of interesting people there as well, and we had a good time haggling for electronic junk older than we were. I was declared the winner at the end of the day with the $2 Gameboy Color. You could tell the guy was really excited to sell me a piece of my childhood.

The next two swap meets are in the De Anza parking lot on 9/11 and 10/9, and are generally on the second Saturday of the month during the summer.