You want the Hampton Inn. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hampton+Inn+%26+Suites+Mountain+View/@37.… It is walking distance to the light rail station and Castro street. Mountain View is pretty much a cultural wasteland. If you don't have a car, the only walkable places to eat are off Castro. You could even walk to the CHM - it might even be quicker than car given MTV traffic. The rail from SF airport is surprisingly slow. San Jose may be a better choice. On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Cory Heisterkamp via cctalk < cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

On 3/30/2017 6:58 PM, CuriousMarc via cctalk wrote: Marc, I'll also look you up if we are there mid week. As to recommendations, I like the Country Inn & Suites by Carlson in Sunnyvale, which is at Ca 237 and Caribbean. If you run around by the bay is Weird Stuff, and it is about 2 or so miles from the CHM. At 237 Caribbean becomes Lawrence which is a handy road since you can easily get to Halted for another stop. Their new spot is quite a bit better stocked than the original location. I'm not sure Fry's is worth a stop, unless you don't have one and want to see what they have. Country Inn 1300 Chesapeake Terrace, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Charles might chime in about the place he stayed while here for VCF if he sees this, that hotel seemed good, though I don't recall where it was. I really like Tomatina's for Italian, though it's a drive. We stumbled across it and were highly impressed with the food. 3127 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054 I'm in Southern, Ca, and travel up there a time or two a year, FWIW. Thanks Jim

On 3/30/2017 8:15 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Halted? We drove by there, could get address off google. Weird Stuff used to be across from the original Frys, then Frys move across the street with the Giant IC building. Again, can drive there, would have to do it on google to get the address. Extra points if you remember the IC supplies in the original Frys next to the M&M's and cans of Pringles. Before the brothers decided if they were an electronics store or a stereo store and had fights. Across from the side of the road that original Frys was on was a TOGO's that filled the parking lot and 2 or three nicely stocked junk stores, which changed frequently. The guys who did the Hard Disk drive guide book had their original store in there and lots of cheap and hard to find product. thanks Jim

On 3/30/17 8:35 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: Corporate Systems Center their main office was on Maude

On 3/30/2017 8:42 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: Corporate Systems Center, and Martin, still exist, as Digital Loggers, on Walsh Av. I still work there, 20+ years... Bob -- Vintage computers and electronics www.dvq.com www.tekmuseum.com www.decmuseum.org

On 03/30/2017 08:56 PM, Bob Rosenbloom via cctalk wrote: I still have the manuals and software for his Fastcache and Fastecache 32 SCSI controllers. Got rid of the cards themselves a long time ago when better cards became available and 30-pin SIMMs were no longer popular. I think I still have a system around here with an ESDI drive that I got in Sunnyvale that offered cut-rate deals on big hard drives. And of course, the business retail outfits, Inmac with its trademark blue cables. TI had a retail store in Stanford Shopping Center. And if you couldn't find a part you needed, a few beers at the Walker's Wagon Wheel in Mountain View after work would turn up someone who could filch what you needed from their stock at work. Remember Haltek in Mountain View? (wasn't it at the dead end of Linda Vista? I bought my Tek 465 there.) What was the name of the warehouse operation in Palo Alto that just had stacks of stuff with no particular organization? I bought a lot of cable there. I remember the smell of tomato sauce that pervaded Sunnyvale in the summertime and all of the seasonal cannery workers. The cherry blossoms that would make piles in the streets come springtime. Santa Clara may have had Italian prunes, but Sunnyvale had cherry orchards. Remember Chez Yvonne in Mountain View on El Camino with its geriatric waitresses that would call you Shveetie and Yvonne herself holding court? When a bunch of us got Durango started on 10101 Bubb Road in Cupertino, there were canneries in back, just across the railroad tracks in Monte Vista. Some kids had the building space across the road trying to get a little outfit called "Apple" started. Wonder how that worked out... After being gone for almost 30 years, I'd probably get lost now. And, as Thomas Wolfe said, "You can't go home again." --Chuck

On 3/30/17 8:15 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Phelen Ave in San Jose, which was before the larger place on Sycamore in Milpitas. Richard Anderson had several places after he, Mac McDougal and the Schutz's started WSW. The Weird Stuff name and logo came from Richard's brother, who was in the advertising business.

On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: . . . and it would be very depressing. It's been more than three decades since the staffing at Fry's went bad.

On 03/31/2017 11:17 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: That's a shame. One thing that Sunnyvale and Santa Clara offered was lots of inexpensive "incubator" space. I think that soaring prices on industrial rental space was what eventually forced Dan (Haltek) out of his digs on Linda Vista in MV. He had another outfit in Santa Clara, "Redwood Electronics", but that seems to have turned to dust at about the same time. Things come and go, though. Where Sun was is now Google. Tear-downs are the thing in older residential Mountain View and Palo Alto. I remember when nobody but hippies and horse people lived in Los Altos Hills on gravel-paved roads. --Chuck