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Previously: The business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42107870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4210787

Previously: The business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42107870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42107870

xtiansimon 2y ago
There used to be some killer junk warehouses in San Jose filled with the detritus of electronics industry. Triangle comes to mind.
- rbanffy 2y ago
  In Brazil there were large warehouses in São Paulo near the local “electronics” street, Santa Efigênia (we joked she was the saint patron of electrical engineering). From those places you could get almost anything, from a tomography machine or a jet engine test stand, all the way to each and every kind of electronic component of every imaginable vintage. As far as I know, the ecosystem that powered it no longer exists. I got a sizeable chunk of my vintage computer collection there.
  - rbanffy 2y ago
    > As far as I know, the ecosystem that powered it no longer exists. I take that back. Going through the place on Google Street View shows it quite vital as late as April 2024. Some of the places that had the most interesting stuff seem closed, but it really depends on the actual day of the week of the photo, as those places had notoriously unreliable opening hours.
  - kristianp 2y ago
    I'm getting a weird William Gibson vibe from this comment. Your 1st two paragraphs could be the start of one of his short stories.
- snowwrestler 2y ago
  Even cooler were the shops near LA filled with the detritus of the aerospace industry. Like, piles of titanium tubing, and big rocket nozzles sitting on the floor. Example: https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/los-angeles-sci-fi-prop-house-norton-sales-18527669.php https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/los-angeles-sci-fi-prop-ho...
- jrnichols 2y ago
  for a while back in the early 2000s it felt like Weirdstuff Warehouse was getting pallets of surplus gear from failed dot-coms. along with the office chairs/etc.

Previously: The business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42107870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42107870

xtiansimon 2y ago

There used to be some killer junk warehouses in San Jose filled with the detritus of electronics industry. Triangle comes to mind.

rbanffy 2y ago
In Brazil there were large warehouses in São Paulo near the local “electronics” street, Santa Efigênia (we joked she was the saint patron of electrical engineering). From those places you could get almost anything, from a tomography machine or a jet engine test stand, all the way to each and every kind of electronic component of every imaginable vintage. As far as I know, the ecosystem that powered it no longer exists. I got a sizeable chunk of my vintage computer collection there.
- rbanffy 2y ago
  > As far as I know, the ecosystem that powered it no longer exists. I take that back. Going through the place on Google Street View shows it quite vital as late as April 2024. Some of the places that had the most interesting stuff seem closed, but it really depends on the actual day of the week of the photo, as those places had notoriously unreliable opening hours.
- kristianp 2y ago
  I'm getting a weird William Gibson vibe from this comment. Your 1st two paragraphs could be the start of one of his short stories.
snowwrestler 2y ago
Even cooler were the shops near LA filled with the detritus of the aerospace industry. Like, piles of titanium tubing, and big rocket nozzles sitting on the floor. Example: https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/los-angeles-sci-fi-prop-house-norton-sales-18527669.php https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/los-angeles-sci-fi-prop-ho...
jrnichols 2y ago
for a while back in the early 2000s it felt like Weirdstuff Warehouse was getting pallets of surplus gear from failed dot-coms. along with the office chairs/etc.