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I haven't lived in SV since 1993, but things like this sure make me miss it.

• JKCalhoun 5y ago
  Moved there in 1995 and it was amazing. Sadly, it got less amazing as the decades marched on and Silicon Valley became Web Valley (now Social Valley?). Those days: Computer Literacy bookstore, Disk Drive Depot... Fry's went mainstream and then faded, Weirdstuff gone, Haltek, several other surplus stores gone whose names escape me. The Saturday crawl from one surplus store to another across Mountain View and Sunnyvale used to be worth getting up early for.
  • lost_soul 5y ago
    There was Halted and that place in San Carlos that sold things like surplus metal subassemblies.
    • jrmg 5y ago
      There’s still Excess Solutions in San Jose. They bought out Halted’s stock a few years ago.
      • JKCalhoun 5y ago
        Yeah, not the same somehow. I stopped by twice over the past year or so but the mojo is gone.