another one bit the dust (a year ago ?)

I was fooling with old brower bookmarks and tried the one for BG Micro and got this:

the dreaded error 404, 5-7-2022

Yikes, punched bgmicro into the wayback machine and found that their last capture was this on October 20, 2021:

sounded like they would be back ?

 

Going back through 2021 the last capture without the renovation note was April 23, 2021:

still in business April 2021 ?

So they've been gone a year, was it the pandemic ?  Did they lose a vital person to sickness or death ?    They used to send out emails but I haven't purchased anything recently (obviously).  That happens - I still get email sale notices from Electronic Goldmine (a LOT of them each week) and once a week from All Electronics, so there are still some folks in the surplus field that are active.

One nice thing with sites like bgmicro.com (and my wb9kzy.com site, too) is that the wayback machine does a good job of capturing them, when the more modern, dynamic sites die off there will be nothing left of them except the title index page.

It's a shame, I used to buy items like 7 MHz crystals from BG Micro  (I may have bought them out on those - can't find them anywhere else, they were handy for the LF Converter).  They also had some interesting surplus chips like the LM389 (an LM386 plus 3 NPN transistors), the LM3820 AM radio on a chip, the Delco version, other stuff like that.

a page from their 2003 catalog with the 7 MHz crystals

Maybe it wasn't so much the business failed as the business just wasn't worth the effort, things change and people change, too.

I get regular emails inquiring basically:  "is Jackson Harbor Press still in business ?"  -  the answer:  YES !

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm