[sdiy] sources for wire

[Tom Arnold]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 06:12:26PM -0700, Tim Parkhurst wrote:
> I'd try Halted Specialties in Santa Clara (GREAT place to buy caps, ICs,
> resistors, etc. Be prepared to spend at least an hour looking at all the
> goodies and surplus junk)
> 
> http://www.halted.com/store/index.html

Problem with HSC is they Cherry pick and quite often destroy good equipment
making it into parts that never sell.
I tend to avoid HSC because of this, oh, and they are HELLA expensive.

> or Weird Stuff in Sunnyvale (more complete surplus PCs, hard drives, power
> supplies, etc. Not as good for ICs, resistors, but still fun)
> http://www.weirdstuff.com/

Yeah, mostly computer surplus but if you go to the far back left corner
there are some boxes of resisters, ICs, etc.  Found a few interesting things
in there but not much.

Mike Quinn's in San Leandro has been the source of many an IC I have,
although by now I've cleared out most of Jay's stock of non-digital stuff.
Always a good place to visit at least once as many a computer was born there,
much much history.

Excess Solutions in San Jose ( right on the border ) has on occasion coughed
up good stuff for me, like a carton of new ua726's for $10.

Anchor Electronics in Santa Clara.  Great place, no real online presence.
Nice catalog, small storefront, good selection of parts.  Open on Saturdays.

There are a couple other places that open up monthly the day after the
Foothill, urm, I mean Lockheed Flea Market.

Just about every weekend I make the rounds of various surplus places and
follow up on leads to new ones...  for vacation I drive to surplus places in
other states. :-)

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