I really need to check out SurplusGizmos. I’ve not been there since they were on the south side of the Highway. I literally grew up going to the Tek Country Store, even now some of the furniture in my house came from there, and a lot of it at my parents did. Still today, one of my prized finds from there is a hand-held IBM Card Punch that is still in the box. It’s sitting about 5 feet from where I am now. :-)
I used to have several good places to hunt. Thankfully I don’t any more, as I have more than I know what to do with. I suspect Eco Binary probably sees some classic stuff, but I don’t think they attempt to sell it. They’re a good source for non-Classic stuff. Zane > On Apr 6, 2018, at 9:54 AM, Randy Dawson <rdawso...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > 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/ <http://www.surplusgizmos.com/> > Welcome to SurplusGizmos.com, LLC - We sell the Gizmos ... > <http://www.surplusgizmos.com/> > www.surplusgizmos.com <http://www.surplusgizmos.com/> > Welcome to the web store of SurplusGizmos.com <http://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 > <mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org>> on behalf of Zane Healy via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org <mailto: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 > > <mailto: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
