Seeking Surplus Places, Portland area

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Tue May 13 22:12:00 2003

> All my opinion, of course. I've used them for buying bits and pieces
> for years, and
> they've always been good to me, albeit a bit expensive compared to the
> mail order places.

I use them as well, but find that Norvac tends to be expensive even compared
to other places in the area that carry the same stuff. Still for some
stuff, they're the best place in town that I'm aware of.

> > I'm making a run to Portland and vicinity later this
> > week (Thursday, so I can at least see if the rumors about
> > Tektronix's company store are true). I'm going to be looking

Well, unless it's improved in recent years, it's still a shadow of its
former self. I remember going with my Dad when I was growing up, and it was
for employee's only. It was amazing.

> > Tektronix Company Surplus (I already have directions).

Could you please forward the info to me? I've no idea where on earth they
are these days, or when they're open. I'm not even sure my Dad knows, I
seem to remember some vague answer from him on the subject a while back.

> > I'll also be doing some shopping of my own, but please
> > bear in mind that my interests have swung hard away from
> > computer hardware and back into the RF and test equipment
> > realm. That's not to say I wouldn't like to find, say, Data
> > I/O programming stuff, it's just not my primary focus when
> > I'm shopping any more.

Gee, you're sure you don't want to stop by and empty out one of my storage
units :^)

Unfortunalty I don't know of any places besides what you've listed. I
didn't even know about a couple of those. However, I do recommend that
anyone visiting Portland visit Powells Books, and/or Powells Technical
Books.

                        Zane
Received on Tue May 13 2003 - 22:12:00 BST