[vcf-midatlantic] HSC going out of business

[Evan Koblentz]

There's a place called (I think) Interstate Electronic about 20-30 minutes
north of the museum. I've never been there.

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 12:25 PM Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org wrote:

> I have never been to one. It is near the museum? (Road trip!)
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 6:51 AM corey cohen via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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> > I was just there last week and bought a bunch of parts for a project.
> > Last month I bought from them a NOS high voltage probe for discharging
> > monitors, it was on clearance 50%off.
> >
> > Unless something changed they are on a month to month lease and are
> > looking to sell the business, though they are doing a blowout clearance
> > sale just in case they can’t find a buyer.
> >
> > corey cohen
> > uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Nov 30, 2018, at 6:28 AM, Bob Applegate via vcf-midatlantic <
> > vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > I got an email overnight from HSC, at one time known as Halted
> > Electronics, about their going out of business.  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
> > >
> > >
> >
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