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I was lucky enough to get to go to weirdstuff a few times over the past year, and it’s sad to see it go. I have witnessed the fall of surplus stores over the la
by emh68 8y ago
I was lucky enough to get to go to weirdstuff a few times over the past year, and it’s sad to see it go. I have witnessed the fall of surplus stores over the last decade or so. It seems like they lost touch with what hobbyists want. You’d see piles of corporate IP phones, which no one would find interesting. Piles of rackmount servers for way too much. Piles of hard drives from 1988 that almost certainly won’t hold data. It was bleak. Meanwhile, hobbyist electronics is thriving. Arduinos are flying off the shelves at Amazon.
- happycube 8y agoI saw pictures of Core2-Xeon era servers - did they have newer stuff by the end? I figure most of the secondary demand is for at least Nehalem by now, probably Sandy Bridge+. That said, I would've made the trip up if I had word a couple of weeks ahead of time! I love seeing the variety of stuff, even if it's not terribly useful these days ;)