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Salt Lake City had something similar, Raelco - Ray’s Electronic Company I think. I spent so much time in there they offered me a job. It burned down several years ago.

Tons of surplus from L3, Hill AFB, ATK, etc…

https://utahstories.com/2017/11/ra-elco-electronics-a-salt-l...

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Following on from my story elsewhere about working for HGST (Western Digital), visiting HQ in San Jose from the UK and making it to Halted a couple of times...

...then WD acquired Sandisk and I found myself in Utah for tech training, and made a trip to Raelco.

Boy was that place a tight squeeze to navigate!

I used to bicycle down from the top of Bernal Rd. as it is very steep. The IBM Bernal (/Almaden?) campus is enormous, with an indoor golf cart for moving people around. I was there c. 1995 for a dark matter conference while I was still in high school (and I looked about 12).

it was packed, and that was just the front. If you got wire, you’d head to the back, and that was also packed. Maybe not a huge surprise it burned down. BUT, tons and tons of milspec parts.

Salt Lake Instrument was another place, but I only got to visit once after the guy had mostly retired. Tons and tons and tons of vacuum tubes

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