The hacking and vintage computing hobby has grown, not shrank. There are difficulties getting parts overseas. Is there not enough market in the us for parts suppliers? Or is it that we're continuing to see consolidation due to amazon and Alibaba? So let's say the market is at least steady...should we be blaming ourselves for using amazon? On Wed, Jul 5, 2023, 12:47 PM RETRO Innovations via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 7/5/2023 11:25 AM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Yet another electronics surplus company is going out of business: https://www.allelectronics.com/
My childhood involved their catalogs and planning out projects based around their surplus parts.
Bummer!
- Ethan
As was mine. I even have some of the stuff still in original plastic baggies from them (projects I never got around to complete)
Jim
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