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From: Dave Platt on 9 Jun 2010 16:05 In article <0001HW.C8352E840050C7DDB01AD9AF(a)news.eternal-september.org>, DaveC <newsgroups> wrote: >Halted (HSC) Electronics, alive and well in Santa Clara and Rohnert Park: > ><http://www.halted.com/> > >Anchor Electronics in Santa Clara, not far from Halted: > ><http://www.anchor-electronics.com/> Excess Solutions in Milpitas is also worth visiting. >Jameco is a mailorder supplier in Belmont, just off of 101, that has a >will-call counter where you can pick up and/or place orders: > ><http://www.jameco.com/> >Fry's, who are responsible for the closure of many of those small electronics >suppliers, isn't worth mentioning. Other than when I do visit, the one thing >I want is out of stock. They have no intelligent stocking procedure: both >high-demand and low-demand items are equally stocked. Guess which shelf space >is always empty? Brain-dead management. No, actually, the "Brain-dead management" shelves usually seem to be well-stocked at Fry's. I guess nobody wants to buy brain-dead management in retail quantities (most companies seem to buy it wholesale, and probably pay more for it that way). :-) -- Dave Platt <dplatt(a)radagast.org> AE6EO Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!
From: b on 9 Jun 2010 17:11 On Jun 9, 9:05 pm, dpl...(a)radagast.org (Dave Platt) wrote: > In article <0001HW.C8352E840050C7DDB01AD...(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > > DaveC <newsgroups> wrote: > >Halted (HSC) Electronics, alive and well in Santa Clara and Rohnert Park: > > >< er....the thread title says UK. UK= United Kingdom! just thought respectfully I'd point that out, as there have been several irrelevant (US-related) answers here! -B
From: b on 9 Jun 2010 17:18 On Jun 9, 9:13 am, "N_Cook" <dive...(a)tcp.co.uk> wrote:. Hamfest/Radio rally sites once a year , around > the country seem to be the only hands-on outlets these days This month is the BVWS Harpenden Auction and 'garden party' of the vintage wireless museum. Last month was the NVCF near Rugby....quite a few simialr events thru the year. -B
From: Michael A. Terrell on 9 Jun 2010 20:28 b wrote: > > On Jun 9, 9:05 pm, dpl...(a)radagast.org (Dave Platt) wrote: > > In article <0001HW.C8352E840050C7DDB01AD...(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > > > > DaveC <newsgroups> wrote: > > >Halted (HSC) Electronics, alive and well in Santa Clara and Rohnert Park: > > > > >< > > er....the thread title says UK. > UK= United Kingdom! > just thought respectfully I'd point that out, as there have been > several irrelevant (US-related) answers here! Then he should have asked on a UK only newsgroup. -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
From: David Nebenzahl on 10 Jun 2010 01:26
On 6/9/2010 11:41 AM DaveC spake thus: >> Same exact thing has happened here in the San Francisco Bay Area, which >> should be surprising, given that this area includes Silicon Valley. I've >> seen dozens of electronics/surplus stores vanish. Haltek & Halted: gone. >> Weird Stuff: still there, but a faint shadow of its former greatness. >> I'm sure other folks here can name many others that are RIP. > > Halted (HSC) Electronics, alive and well in Santa Clara and Rohnert Park: > > <http://www.halted.com/> Huh; didn't know they were still around. I used to go to their store when they were in Mountain View, but that was a long time ago. > Jameco is a mailorder supplier in Belmont, just off of 101, that has a > will-call counter where you can pick up and/or place orders: > > <http://www.jameco.com/> Forgot about Jameco. Since I used to work in Belmont I used to stop by there from time to time. Nice to be able to pick stuff up. And of course here in the East Bay we have Al Lasher's Electronics in Bezerkeley. Great old-time store. -- The fashion in killing has an insouciant, flirty style this spring, with the flaunting of well-defined muscle, wrapped in flags. - Comment from an article on Antiwar.com (http://antiwar.com) |