Hamfest find today: HP59309A Clock

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Nice find. I miss the good old days when you could get huge piles of surplus HP test equipment for really low prices. Ever since the 2008 financial crisis, it seems like the pickings have gotten really slim, and everybody wants top dollar. The gold scrappers hit it pretty hard in 2008-2010, and then the vendors figured it out and started jacking up the prices to keep it from getting scrapped.

I did have a pretty good HP find at Hamvention this year though - a mint condition HP 9000/300 Model 310, with a 9133 combo disk drive, monitor keyboard, cables, software and manuals for $100. I also picked up two 37201A HP-IB extenders from the same guy for $10 each. I found it on Friday morning right before they opened the gates. The first HP guy that walked by would've snapped it up. Luckily that happened to be me.