[bombcar]

Surplus electronics stores were the absolute best thing about the 80s into 90s, but they're mostly all dead now.

Which is annoying, because back in the 90s you had hell to pay to get anything to work with a computer (usually abusing the parallel port); now any Raspberry Pi can easily control random doodads you might find, but there's no place to find them.

[HankB99]

American Science and Surplus is a fun place to browse. https://sciplus.com/

[20after4]

Now you have to go to Shenzhen to find them.