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    From David Lesher@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 30 07:11:23 2018
    XPost: sci.electronics.design

    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!


    https://www.halted.com
    --
    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

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  • From John Larkin@21:1/5 to wb8foz@panix.com on Fri Nov 30 08:45:13 2018
    XPost: sci.electronics.design

    On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 07:11:23 +0000 (UTC), David Lesher
    <wb8foz@panix.com> wrote:

    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!


    https://www.halted.com

    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

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  • From Jon Elson@21:1/5 to David Lesher on Fri Nov 30 14:05:31 2018
    XPost: sci.electronics.design

    On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 07:11:23 +0000, David Lesher wrote:


    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!


    https://www.halted.com


    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

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  • From three_jeeps@21:1/5 to David Lesher on Fri Nov 30 16:40:46 2018
    On Friday, November 30, 2018 at 2:11:26 AM UTC-5, David Lesher wrote:
    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!


    https://www.halted.com
    --
    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

    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...

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  • From Robert Baer@21:1/5 to David Lesher on Fri Nov 30 21:30:48 2018
    XPost: sci.electronics.design

    David Lesher wrote:
    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!


    https://www.halted.com

    Thanks.
    What will happen to the ducks that used to walk across the street in
    the back?

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