Got a sad email today:
It is with sincere regret that we are announcing the final days for HSC in Silicon Valley.
After 54 years we will be closing our doors for the final time on Saturday, January 12, 2019.
We hope you can stop by or visit our website and stock up on high tech goodies one last time.
The deals will be better than ever!
-- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close.......................... Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
Pity; it was so much fun to poke around there. Haltek, Halted, Mike Quinn, the Foothill Flea Market, Weird Stuff, all succumbed to the escalated value of real estate, and cheap parts and equipment,
There used to be an electronic surplus place on Market Street in San Francisco!
I found one dusty bin full of little things at Halted. I asked the guy at the counter what they cost, and he guessed 10 cents each, so I got a handful. They were tunnel diodes.
I met some big names at Foothill. Bob Pease, Jim Williams, Peter Alfke.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
Wow, sad new indeed. One after the other, they are all shutting down. I haven't been out to the bay area in a long time, but I always made the pilgrimage of HSC, Weird Stuff, Alltronics, Haltek, and a few other places back in the day.
Jon
Major bummer....I was there in the late 80s..made it a stop on my vacation. Being an east-coaster made it difficult to drop in, but I liked and bought stuff from their catalog...sigh... j
omg ...a host is a host....lol....haven't heard that one since mid 80s...lol a moldy oldie...
Thanks. What will happen to the ducks that used to walk across the street in the back?
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