5 Apr
2018
5 Apr
'18
5:21 p.m.
Last Day is this Sunday
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?63045-WeirdStuff-is-going-out-of-…
since I can't attach a picture here
5 Apr
5 Apr
5:31 p.m.
I get a message saying I don't have permission to see that picture.
paul
On Apr 5, 2018, at 8:21 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Last Day is this Sunday
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?63045-WeirdStuff-is-going-out-of-…
since I can't attach a picture here
5:34 p.m.
> On Apr 5, 2018, at 8:21 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 8:31 PM, Paul Koning
via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I get a message saying I don't have permission to see that picture.
You have to be logged into the vcfed.org Forum to see images posted there.
-ethan
5:47 p.m.
On Apr 5, 2018, at 5:35 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
That seems to be a common configuration with web forums.
Zane
On 4/5/18 5:34 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
You have to be logged into the vcfed.org Forum to see images posted there.
forgot about that..
wonder why they do that? 
11:19 p.m.
forgot about that..
wonder why they do that?
Outside linking to images can crush bandwidth, especially if they end up
on a popular site.
Glad I got to visit the warehouse before it went away. Bummer when things
like that go away.
Commercial rents are too high. Real estate values are too inflated
everywhere. Everything cool is priced out.
-- : Ethan O'Toole
5:33 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 8:21 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Last Day is this Sunday
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?63045-WeirdStuff-is-going-out-of-…
Bummer. I bought many things from them on my visits to the Bay Area
in the 90s. I still have a Weird Stuff poster hanging up in my
machine room.
RIP.
-ethan
8:16 p.m.
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.
I'm crushed.
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 5:21 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Last Day is this Sunday
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?63045-
WeirdStuff-is-going-out-of-buisiness-(
since I can't attach a picture here
--
Eric Korpela
korpela at ssl.berkeley.edu
AST:7731^29u18e3
9:31 p.m.
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
9:38 p.m.
On Apr 5, 2018, at 9:31 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 04/05/2018 08:16 PM, Eric Korpela via cctalk wrote:
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
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 
6 Apr
6 Apr
9:54 a.m.
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-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Zane Healy via cctalk
<cctalk at 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 at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 04/05/2018 08:16 PM, Eric Korpela via cctalk wrote:
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
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
11:13 a.m.
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 <rdawson16
at 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-bounces at classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk-bounces at
classiccmp.org>> on behalf of Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org
<mailto:cctalk at 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 at classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
On 04/05/2018 08:16 PM, Eric Korpela via cctalk wrote:
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 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 
12:34 p.m.
On 06/04/18 17:54, Randy Dawson via cctalk 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/
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)
A bit further afield (Garland, Texas), there's BG Micro -
https://www.bgmicro.com/
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
1:34 p.m.
On 6 Apr 2018, at 20:34, Philip Pemberton via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 06/04/18 17:54, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote:
Wow, I?d completely forgotten about them. I bought a load of 2114 RAM chips from them in
2001 and still haven?t used them all. Nice to see they still exist and are still selling
2114s :)
?
Adrian
www.binarydinosaurs.co <http://www.binarydinosaurs.co/>.uk
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)
A bit further afield (Garland, Texas), there's BG Micro -
https://www.bgmicro.com/ <https://www.bgmicro.com/>
4:32 p.m.
Is Surplus Sales of Nebraska still in the game?
https://www.surplussales.com/
Here's a 5-year old list of places that Jeff Duntemann created.
https://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=2726
I remember John Meshna's operation fondly. He had some great stuff.
--Chuck
5 Apr
5 Apr
11:39 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 09:31:01PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
But how much stuff is actually manufactured in the Santa Clara valley
now? I suspect that the bulk of manufacturing is done elsewhere.
A lot in China of course. I have visited the electronics market in
Shenzhen. It is pretty amazing.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/the-essential-guide-to-electroni…
/P
2:35 a.m.
Very sad day :(
2018-04-06 6:33 GMT-03:00 Mark Linimon via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 08:16:35PM -0700, Eric Korpela
via cctalk wrote:
I'm not religious, but I consider this a sign
of the apocalypse.
Agreed.
I am glad I am far out of driving distance.
mcl
6 Apr
6 Apr
5:35 p.m.
On 4/5/2018 8:21 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
Last Day is this Sunday
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?63045-WeirdStuff-is-going-out-of-…
since I can't attach a picture here
What's going to happen to all the weird stuff?
8:46 p.m.
On 2018-04-06 8:35 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 4/5/2018 8:21 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
You don't really want to know.
Last Day is this Sunday
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?63045-WeirdStuff-is-going-out-of-…
since I can't attach a picture here
What's going to happen to all the weird stuff?
7 Apr
7 Apr
7:29 a.m.
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 20:35:28 -0400
Douglas Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 4/5/2018 8:21 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
Here's the newsletter Weirdstuff sent to all their subscribers:
---------------------------------------------------------------
WeirdStuff Warehouse Newsletter
April 6, 2018
To Weirdstuff Customers,
Sadly, after 32 years in business, Weirdstuff Warehouse will be closing
its doors as of April 9, 2018. If you have been following the real
estate news for Sunnyvale you know that Google purchased a large amount
of real estate in the area including the building we have been leasing
for the past 22 years. We have been asked to vacate the building as
soon as possible, and in order to accomplish that task we are selling
our inventory and many of our assets to Outback Equipment of Morgan
Hill. The transfer of inventory and assets will take place on April 9,
2018; at that time Weirdstuff Warehouse will cease to do business.
Even though Weirdstuff is closing we will retain ownership of the
Corporation, trademark, and domain names. We hope to handle these
entities and wind down the corporation before year end.
Many of you have been loyal customers for many years, and we have
enjoyed working with you. We thank you for your loyalty and business.
For more information, check out our website after Monday, April 9, 2018.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I spent most of yesterday (Friday) hanging out at Weirdstuff. NBC News
interviewed WS management and myself about the closing. NBC showed up
because of the "trend" of Bay Area tweets about the closure. Needless
to say, the WS store was packed with sad faces about the closing. Not
one good word about Google, who is buying up all the land they can and
wiping out small businesses with disregard.
Lyle
--
73 AF6WS
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
Last Day is this Sunday
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?63045-WeirdStuff-is-going-out-of-…
since I can't attach a picture here
What's going to happen to all the weird stuff? 
10:53 a.m.
Looking at Outback's website I don't see them selling old Sun 3 keyboards
or outlet strips.
Sigh,
Marc
On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 7:29 AM, Lyle Bickley via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 20:35:28 -0400
Douglas Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Here's the newsletter Weirdstuff sent to all their subscribers:
---------------------------------------------------------------
WeirdStuff Warehouse Newsletter
April 6, 2018
To Weirdstuff Customers,
Sadly, after 32 years in business, Weirdstuff Warehouse will be closing
its doors as of April 9, 2018. If you have been following the real
estate news for Sunnyvale you know that Google purchased a large amount
of real estate in the area including the building we have been leasing
for the past 22 years. We have been asked to vacate the building as
soon as possible, and in order to accomplish that task we are selling
our inventory and many of our assets to Outback Equipment of Morgan
Hill. The transfer of inventory and assets will take place on April 9,
2018; at that time Weirdstuff Warehouse will cease to do business.
Even though Weirdstuff is closing we will retain ownership of the
Corporation, trademark, and domain names. We hope to handle these
entities and wind down the corporation before year end.
Many of you have been loyal customers for many years, and we have
enjoyed working with you. We thank you for your loyalty and business.
For more information, check out our website after Monday, April 9, 2018.
------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------
I spent most of yesterday (Friday) hanging out at Weirdstuff. NBC News
interviewed WS management and myself about the closing. NBC showed up
because of the "trend" of Bay Area tweets about the closure. Needless
to say, the WS store was packed with sad faces about the closing. Not
one good word about Google, who is buying up all the land they can and
wiping out small businesses with disregard.
Lyle
--
73 AF6WS
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
On 4/5/2018 8:21 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> Last Day is this Sunday
>
> http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?63045-
WeirdStuff-is-going-out-of-buisiness-(
since I can't attach a picture here
What's going to happen to all the weird stuff? 
9:32 p.m.
On 4/6/2018 6:35 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 4/5/2018 8:21 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
It will magicly blend back into the state ...
When you think about it, there has not been much new weird stuff since
the 1980's. I am testing a 20 bit cpu (2901 design) in a DE1 FPGA
development system, and plan to use real hardware later this year
but that is only 1 new weird item for 2018.
Ben.
PS: Most of my development work had been fucked up by windows,
several files had been secretly rolled back when it felt needed
to install new drivers, could not find them, crash and restore
the old crap, but only after a bootup.
Last Day is this Sunday
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?63045-WeirdStuff-is-going-out-of-…
since I can't attach a picture here
What's going to happen to all the weird stuff?
6 Apr
6 Apr
8:20 p.m.
On 2018-04-05 20:21, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
Last Day is this Sunday
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?63045-WeirdStuff-is-going-out-of-…
since I can't attach a picture here
Apparently no one get's the April Fools joke... sad really.
11:08 p.m.
The post on vcf wasn't on 4/1 but you're saying the picture was from it? Have they
done that before? (It does sound sorta familiar).
I hope its the joke. Us remote folks can't handle this! ;-)
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On 2018-04-05 20:21, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
Last Day is this Sunday
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?63045-WeirdStuff-is-going-out-of-…
since I can't attach a picture here
Apparently no one get's the April Fools joke... sad really.
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