WeirdStuff going out of business

[Randy Dawson]

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


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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:
>> 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