On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 6:29 AM Bob Applegate via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I got an email overnight from HSC, at one time known as Halted Electronics, about their going out of business.
:-( I was in San Mateo a couple of months ago for business and didn't have any excursion time in my schedule, but it would have been nice to have been able to have hit them when I was out there. I don't have any upcoming travel to that part of the world, so I'll probably miss out. The S-100 stuff is of some interest to me (I have a XOR and a Godbout/Compupro box). It's been 20 years since my last visit to Weird Stuff Warehouse. It was a blast browsing at all those places and, well, that era is basically behind us. -ethan They were the classic electronics surplus stores with bins full of dusty components and strange secrets sitting on top of each other. The last time I was in Silicon Valley, I stopped there and grabbed some S-100 prototyping boards (they had dozens of them), and looked through their collection of other S-100 boards. They had a fair amount of other vintage computing stuff too.
The web page can’t possibly show everything they have, but it’s worth a look:
https://www.halted.com/commerce/index.jsp
I have no involvement with them except as a customer. Always great people to work with.
Bob