Zane, The Country Store is still going, and while you are there check the museum, VintageTek next door.
Surplus Gizmos in Hillsboro looks to still be in business: http://www.surplusgizmos.com/ Welcome to SurplusGizmos.com, LLC - We sell the Gizmos ...<http://www.surplusgizmos.com/> www.surplusgizmos.com Welcome to the web store of SurplusGizmos.com, LLC. Our retail store is located: 5797 NW Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Oregon, 97124 (503-439-1249) Randy ________________________________ From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 9:38 PM To: Chuck Guzis; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: WeirdStuff going out of business > On Apr 5, 2018, at 9:31 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On 04/05/2018 08:16 PM, Eric Korpela via cctalk wrote: >> I'm not religious, but I consider this a sign of the apocalypse. >> >> I've got bags of stuff I've purchase there (including in its old location) >> that I haven't had time to deal/play with. > > It is sad--in the 70s and 80s, the Bay area was rife with surplus > places. Many an engineer working for a startup cruised those floors. > > But how much stuff is actually manufactured in the Santa Clara valley > now? I suspect that the bulk of manufacturing is done elsewhere. > > I went to school in Chicago and can remember the surplus electronics > places on South Michigan Avenue. They were probably gone by the mid 70s. > > So too were the local parts places--you know, the ones with real parts > counters. > > Heck, I still have stuff I purchased at Sunnyvale Electronics. > > It's a different world now. > > --Chuck Here in the Silicon Forest, “Wacky Willies” has been gone for longer than I care to remember. I don’t know if the “Tek Country Store” is still around in any form. Even the non-Surplus Electronics Parts places around here are long gone. :-( Zane
