13 Mar
2023
13 Mar
'23
4:44 a.m.
On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 12:27 AM Fred Cisin via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Sun, 12 Mar 2023, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
wrote:
You can go watch the lines of people trying to get their money out of
Silicon Valley Bank.
I recall driving past the house with the garage that Apple started.
Sushi places around there are good.
Bill
The Silicon Valley of old is basically dead. The
magic is gone.
<snip>
. . . and that nostalgia of what we miss is what fueled stupid prices for
a not-to-scale advertising map poster that mentioned some of what once was
It used to be worth driving an hour to go to the Computer Literacy
bookstore, . . .
and the Foothill swap, before dawn, . . .
even the John Craig Computer Swap America at the San Jose fairgrounds, . .
.
Electronics, Etc., and Al Lasher's are gone in Berkeley,
Mike Quinn's at the Oakland airport, even Radio Shack is gone