[vcf-midatlantic] HSC going out of business

[Ethan Dicks]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 6:29 AM Bob Applegate via vcf-midatlantic
<vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> The web page can’t possibly show everything they have, but it’s worth a look:
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> https://www.halted.com/commerce/index.jsp
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> I have no involvement with them except as a customer.  Always great people to work with.
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> Bob
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