Hi Folks,
As many of you know, the venerable Mike Quinn Electronics in San
Leandro, CA (down by the Oakland Airport) closed last Saturday with
virtually no advance notice. If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area,
you know Mike Quinn is the one of the very last of the nitty gritty
electronics salvage shops left, with an emphasis on gritty.
I stopped by today, and mentioned to Maurice, the owner, that a lot
of people would have liked to have had one last shot at a visit. So,
he has extented an invitation to y'all to visit next week, Tuesday
through Friday February 7-10, 2006, during normal business hours, for
one last shopping spree. He is trying to find a buyer for the stock
in the store. This is almost certainly the last chance to visit. If
you can, it's worth doing whatever you have to do to make the
pilgrimage. Buy some stuff to thank Maurice for keeping it going all
this time.
There are zillions of connectors and components, heaps of
transformers and power supplies, scads of cables and keyboards and
monitors and other PC junk, a jet fighter console or two, a couple of
early 80's HP desktop computers (the ones with built-in BASIC, can't
recall the model numbers), lots of relays, and much more, all
arranged in an archaeologically interesting and un-seismically-safe
way. If you need it, they have it, and they might even be able to
find it.
Mike Quinn Electronics
401 McCormick Street (at the corner of Adams and McCormick)
San Leandro, CA 94577
Brian