Active Surplus is Closing it's Queen Location
Details on their site. Steels location to stay open. Everything 50% off. http://www.activesurplus.com -- Scott Sullivan
Good to know, thanks. The Steeles location was pretty terrible when I visited it about a year ago: nothing much of interest and everything overpriced. P.
Details on their site. Steels location to stay open. Everything 50% off.
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On 09/03/2015 02:08 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote:
Details on their site. Steels location to stay open. Everything 50% off.
I didn't even know they had a Steeles location. I used to frequent the Queen store years ago, when I worked downtown. They had lots of stuff there, some of it even useful. ;-) One item I bought there was an S-100 bus prototyping board, which I used to build an 8 port serial card for my IMSAI 8080. I actually populated 3 of the ports, but, with the 8250 UART, it was just as easy to design the board for 8 ports as 4. In designing and building that board, I found a bug in the 8250 that Western Digital was unaware of. I was in the vicinity of the Queen store recently and saw it was now upstairs. The last time I was in there, it was on the main floor and basement.
On 15-09-03 02:08 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote:
Details on their site. Steels location to stay open. Everything 50% off.
Another (almost historic) landmark is about to be lost? It just won't be the same to walk along Queen Street east of Spadina and not see the Gorilla standing on the side walk. I remember noticing that Active was upstairs the last time I was in the area. They used to be on the main floor and had a basement to visit. I wouldn't be surprised if rents have gone up too much for them. That section of Queen St. West has gotten really upscale since the days I used to work at Arkon Electronics in the 80's. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that distract Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's why we're | powerful!" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick
On Sun, 2015-09-06 at 20:30 -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote:
On 15-09-03 02:08 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote:
Details on their site. Steels location to stay open. Everything 50% off.
Another (almost historic) landmark is about to be lost? It just won't be the same to walk along Queen Street east of Spadina and not see the Gorilla standing on the side walk.
I remember noticing that Active was upstairs the last time I was in the area. They used to be on the main floor and had a basement to visit. I wouldn't be surprised if rents have gone up too much for them. That section of Queen St. West has gotten really upscale since the days I used to work at Arkon Electronics in the 80's.
I suspect, too, that a lot of electronics industry has dried up around T.O. in the last 30 or so years, and so new surplus and leftovers aren't being created. Mel.
On 09/06/2015 08:30 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote:
On 15-09-03 02:08 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote:
Details on their site. Steels location to stay open. Everything 50% off.
Another (almost historic) landmark is about to be lost? It just won't be the same to walk along Queen Street east of Spadina and not see the Gorilla standing on the side walk.
I remember noticing that Active was upstairs the last time I was in the area. They used to be on the main floor and had a basement to visit. I wouldn't be surprised if rents have gone up too much for them. That section of Queen St. West has gotten really upscale since the days I used to work at Arkon Electronics in the 80's.
There was a piece recently on the CBC News about them closing.
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