I love RE-PC so much! Glad you got a chance to check it out. 👍

When I was a broke kid in late 80's the place to scrounge for PC parts was Boeing surplus in Kent, WA. Computer parts were dirt cheap as they upgraded systems in their offices. It was a great way to learn how to build a working system and troubleshoot. When RE-PC opened in the 90's it was quite a step up, and that was the place to go if I needed something specific. But at Boeing surplus you never knew what else you'd find in there, it went way beyond computers. It closed in 2007 and was a real loss to the community in my opinion.

RE-PC is the biggest thing I miss about that region.... I used to hit up the Tukwila location a few times a month.

RE-PC was nice back a few years ago when I used to visit frequently. I scored like 10 of those 100MB internal SCSI zip drives for $5 each. They had up to 75% off sales with colored tags and it was literally impossible to not find killer deals. I bought rare PS2 and Gamecube games for $1 each. Nowadays, unless you are specifically looking for cables, everything is priced at or above eBay prices with no ability to return anything. Pay $400 for that vintage PC, take it home, find out it's broken and you're SOL. I find way better deals at Seattle Goodwill and they have a great return policy on everything you buy. I appreciate them for recycling junk, but gee, they have to know that everything they get is free from recyclers and it's not cool to charge so much + disallow any kind of returns!

I remember when they first opened in the 1990's they had huge bins of 80's computer parts, like hundreds of original IBM PC and AT boards. It was paradise for a PC builder. I still have a few of the ancient components I picked up back then, some in their original boxes. Alas, several days ago I searched for 4GB DDR2 DIMMs at both locations with no luck. It's hit or miss but sometimes you can score a treasure.

Wow, it got filmed in late Feb or early March. I go there all the time, and I can notice changes in inventory - that is how I can tell the timing of filming.

Travan tape drives! I was blown away when we tested those and found their reliability to be exactly on par with every other tape backup system (more than 1/3 of tape backups cannot be restored). As a backup system, they were more of a 'busy work to make you feel good' than an actual safety net, like roping yourself to save you from falling off the roof... and then tying the other end to your dog.

Oh wow. I went to this store YEARS ago whenever i had to kill time. I totally forgot it existed lol. I do remember the staff being friendly and helpful. Neat place.

Warshington! Welcome to the Pacific Northwest.

The Seattle branch looks like they added that back wall partitioning the area. Both locations have downsized about 10 years ago.

I REALLY enjoyed this video. I live in Seattle and years ago went to RE/PC frequently. Thank you for making this video and the tape on mic scene was hilarious.

Never heard of this store until your video randomly showed up just now and I watched out of curiosity. I'm in the area now and then and will have to check it out.

I’m from the Chicago area currently visiting my mom in the PNW, thank you for reminding me that this store is up here. I am now headed to Tuckwilla!

Wow... they still have that Gateway Destination for $400? We're at 20 years now I believe. That was an LX chipset so you're limited to a 66mhz FBS. Also it was designed for Slot 1 CPUs so to mount anything ATX you have to rip out the 4 CPU posts. And forget about the IO shield as it's a little bit too small for standard. All the expansion cards I believe are ISA. They were NOT supported in Win2k AFAIK but my information was quite dated. It is a pretty cool case. It was nice to be able to mount 3 DVD burners. It was my basis for small time media production. But for the life of me I can't think of ANY application that would justify $400 for that puppy.

Thank you for making this video! I completely forgot about RePC and, now that I’m back in Washington , I’ll have to go visit soon. In the late 90’s, I used to go to the Boeing Surplus Store to find the truly killer deals on vintage Mac stuff.

Great video, thank you for documenting that place! And nice finds!

This is so awesome brother! Thanks so much for sharing! I subbed - keep up the great work. Cheers from California

Yo! REPC! I go there every few weeks! A wonderful store.

I love re-pc so much!!! I don't get much free time to go by anymore but every time i've been there i've walked out with stuff i've been looking for lol.

I remember Bernoulli disks being about 8 inches square or larger. Those drives sounded absolutely lovely when you powered them on and off.

Cool tour! Looks like you got some awesome finds! From the video equipment to vintage Macs and PCs, it’s all really cool! I’d definitely get a bunch of physical media like tapes for HandyCams, cables/adapters/cards and anything remotely interesting. Then comes the problem of actually storing and dealing with everything haha, not to mention all those CRTs! Those Belkin Hubs are actually really interesting, didn’t know a modular design like that existed! They seem really useful for old and even new systems.

oh cool you came up to seattle! RE-PC has some pretty cool stuff yea. glad you could visit!

Don’t sweat the monitor. The spring that adjusts the height is tensioned on a plastic tab. It likely would shatter in shipping and you wouldn’t be able to adjust the height. Ask me how I know 😂

The 30-pin RAM with male pins is actually "SIPP" memory for an early 286.

My first job out of high school was working for non profit pc refurbisher, basically a smaller version of re-pc. I think we even sent stuff we didn't use to them. Super interesting stuff would come in thought the donation dock--I was a technician and basically tried to stay out of the way of the warehouse crew, but I'd cover the dock during their breaks or days off to take in donations. Endless serial cables and obscure peripherals, occasional valuable gaming hardware, cat pee soaked keyboards, really ran the gamut. Cat owners and banks always dropped off the nastiest stuff! I guess the finance sector is both resistant to new tech and spending money, and held on to old hardware as long as they could... probably could have lasted even longer if they blew the dust out every once and a while. The pictures you see on reddit of servers and PC's full of caked dust, grime, or even bugs (yuck) were an every day appearance for us--thank goodness for a N95, downdraft table, and endless compressed air.

I hit the RePC in Seattle every few weeks. It does lose it's draw after a few visits because everything looks the same as 99% of the stuff doesn't move. I had a fun time recently getting some parts for a P4 retro build ($50 craigslist "Deal" becoming a $400 "Project").

Sweet! I recently picked up a new in box 2010 Dell Optiplex. Being the first person to open is quite satisfying.

We used to have a great place like this in my neck of the woods called "Weird Stuff." Sadly, they closed up shop a few years back. Shortly followed, two other recyclers closed up shop, and one more closed its doors to public. So... nothing really left in the San Jose area of NorCal. :o(

Oh wow! That place would have given me a buffer overrun! Thanks for sharing. Poor Tom! 😂

Been shopping there for decades! I was early into this stuff, 80 col cards and mag reel data storage, (1970's US Army) They have IBM 26 card reader and a 29 Punch/reader , plus a Univac 1710 card punch/reader!

i can't believe a youtuber just got to the REPC Store that i just went few months ago! Also i bought a black laptop that costed like over 30 dollars it was cheap with no os so i installed it on it, however it had lags

I used to work two doors down from the Tukwila location, which made that a *dangerous* store for my bank account... I don't know how many hours I spent in that store while waiting for rush hour to die down.

I wish we had stores like that in Ireland. We have this odd thing here where thrift type stores don't sell electronics for some legal reason (health and safety I assume). We do have stores that sell second hand electronics but they are really expensive and they mostly deal with game consoles, phones and newer laptops etc (CEX). I can imagine myself going into the RE-PC place after just getting paid from work and spending the day and coming out with loads of stuff I don't need but had to have anyway lol A nice PowerPC or an X-Serve would be a sure pickup for me :D

Crazy! I also went to both RE-PC locations the first time last month

Between 2002 and 2013 I collected old Mac Laptops. I had almost every model (but not every variation) when I sold them in 2013 to a computer museum in New Orleans. Now I have only 5 or 6 of my favorite ones left. Anyway when I traveled to Seattle I loved going to the downtown location because at that time the mac stuff went there and the PC stuff was at the other location. I got tons of powerbook parts and units as well as one of those G4 lampshade Macs like on your shelf behind you. Did they have any old mac laptops? I didn't see any in your pictures.

Oh my GOD I want to visit so bad! I need to see if there's anything like that up here in Toronto Canada! I'd be sure to make a video of it! Very nice haul! 😍

The Belkin USB switch is great - I still use one of those for the KM of a KVM. Attach a cheap USB 2.0 hub to the A port, plug in your keyboard, mouse, webcam, etc, and use your monitor input switching instead of spending hundreds on a high end box.

that bucket of 13w3 cables REALLY threw me off haha

The Audio Media ii nubus card I believe was the predecessor to Digidesign pro audio hardware. Sound designer 2 was the audio editor that later became Protools that used it. Built up a few 6100’s back in the day with them. Cheers

Nice throwback for me. I haven't lived there for 4 years now, but Re-PC is Tukwila was a regular stop for me. Grown-up nerd candy store. 👍

I’m a little conflicted about Re-PC. I’m always so excited when I first walk in, but I often don’t leave with anything. I think most of the stuff is overpriced for me to be interested. A lot of their items just seem to gather dust for years. That’s awesome that you found some stuff that you like : ) I have that Logitech mouse mouse. I use it exclusively with Kid Pix.

That original iMac at the Industrial District location has actually been in my possession for some time now. When I saw the recording of it, I was like “huh, wait, that looks familiar”, and instantly recognized it was the most recent machine I bought for my collection.

I shop there all the time. awesome place

I needed a 9 pin D-sub once for an old monitor, and I found it at RE-PC. It's a 9 pin D-sub on one end, and 5 BNC + s-video on the other. It is weird but actually useful and I went digging for it in the cable bins at RE-PC. If you are looking for a cable, they have 5 of them.

1:40 TRS80 spotted. That was my first computer. We had both tape and 5.25” floppy drive for this.

Been coming to their Tukwila store for the last 5 or so years, bought many old iPods, game consoles and retro camcorders and the staff are always fun to talk to. You never know what you’ll find, even the 16:9 720p CRT Sony TV. RE-PC is the best

Ready for Justin to make a visit for some Trident cards...LOL. Loved the video is great to see stores like this.

A lot of RePC's prices are "optimistic," putting it kindly. I've been there a couple times and the only things I'd have been at all interested in were priced way higher than they were worth.

Huh, I live in the area but never thought to check out RE-PC. I'll certainly check them out now!

I love Re-PC .. anytime I go to seattle I head over there

I feel you on the blue Zip drive you're holding at 8:34. I almost bought that exact one about a year ago. It didn't have the price-tag at the time. I got to check out with it and the guy at the register did a search to figure out how much it was worth. Turns out those SCSI Zip drives are worth a bit because of the vintage Macintosh crowd.

I bought my HP servers from there when I lived in Renton. I miss going all the time.

They filled the void left by Frys after it kind of went into the toilet. The SODO locations has more A/V stuff but the Tukwila location has a lot more actual PC things. I go to both frequently and frequently donate to them as well.

We bought an early pc there to use as a backup for my dad's industrial router that only runs on an older version of dos

Reminds me of the old Weird Stuff Warehouse in San Jose, now defuncted out of biz. The carts were Syquest which made a 44MB disk cartridge drive.

RE PC is my goto spot!

I have one of those Audiomedia cards stored somewhere. Need to pull mine out and stick it in my Radius 80/110. 😀

Gonna check them out to see if I can make progress on my "Arche Rival 386SC-16" project. Sourced a keyboard for a start. Need a monitor, serial mouse, 3 inch and a half drive, CD-ROM drive, Sound Blaster, and a monitor. And disks.

That apple modem is my first modem for my IIgs. I used to dial into some local bbs

I'm down in the San Francisco Bay Area and do a drive up to the Portland area to hang with old friends around Christmas time. I would really like to do a "pilgrimage" up to both RE-PC's this year if I can. It's a pretty long drive up there, but not as bad coming from the Portland area. Great video as always!

Wow I didn't think the 9600 tower would still be available! Well, as of 3 weeks ago. I hope you got a SuperDisk / LS120 drive to put in the Compaq haha.

I have been there the last time I visited Seattle and it was amazing 🙂

I have been to the Tukwila location, and bought a reasonably priced used monitor. I feel your frustration about the mixed up items.

I discovered Iomega 's click-of-death was a boot sector issue; after trying some hard drive repair app on one of my Iomega Disks. I believe the issue may have been due to poor quality power control within the drive causing the power in the drives to fluctuate enough to damage the boot sectors of disks, resulting in the clicking sound which was the drive trying to find the boot sectors on the disks.

The first Apple LCD was coooool, they were $1500 but I got one for $700 and flew back from Atlanta with one as a carryon. Used it forever. Blue. The black was nice too. But yeah, got one for $49 a few years back.

Reminds me of the Weird Stuff Warehouse in San Jose. I spent many a weekend browsing Recycled electronics. Sadly I think they’ve been closed for a while.

I'm not really a retro pc fan, but lordie those blue apple studio displays are beautiful, and I'd use one right now if I could.

I go to the 6th Ave location about once a month and was tentatively planning to go there tomorrow. Really great for cable deals! And Jack in the Box is around the corner! :-)

I bought a HP wide format printer there for $20 or $30. I took it apart and made a motorized camera slider. The rest is history.

3:51 both of those exact PowerMacs have been there for many months, or maybe even years. If any of you live in the general area and want one of those PowerMacs, they will probably still be there. They’ve also got a B&W G3 that’s been there forever. I might get it sometime

Diane, 11:30 am April 5th, 2024. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.

I dropped off a bunch of e-waste, including one of those Microsoft mice over the holidays - maybe 9 trips in all. Comes in handy living 4 miles away from the Tukwila Re-PC. All prices are negotiable!

Not just the retro stuff. Monitors from a couple of years ago are often available too, even 4K, for very low prices.

Grew up on repc over the last 25 years. The Tukwilla location used to be bigger than Seattle with an ink refilling service in the rear of the store. They moved one block over several years ago to that smaller location which i found sad. My favorite area is the as-is corner. Sad you didnt check it out. I have to say it was so much more interesting in the 2000's when tech was changing so rapidly.

I saw that same model of 15AV Apple monitor box standalone for sale but I can't remember where. It wasn't local. I can do a search if you'd like.

I'd really like to check out that store! Plus Seattle is a really cool city!

i wish there was a store like this close to me, best i can do that i know of is free geek twin cities which is a 5hr drive. sure i could always scour ebay but i like just walking into a store and having my eye catch something weird and cool that i can afford.

the subtle Twin Peaks reference is greatly appreciated.

Wish I would have known about this place last time I was in Seattle.

Ha! I was JUST there and even picked up and considered buying some of the stuff he took home. The people who work at either RePC locations are generally friendly and always helpful. Some of their prices are just bonkers, though. On the other hand, you can get Apple Watch chargers for $1. Selection is different in each location. If you're into music/video/audio stuff, I recommend the SODO location. If you're more into retrocomputing, I recommend the Tukwila location. But both locations have a little of everything and you'll always find something interesting.

I wish there were more places like this in the DC area...

I'm probably lucky I don't have a RePC here in Chicago-land. I'd be in so much trouble and my wife would have to unalive me. Though the prices don't seem much worse than eBay. 😕

Those buckets of memory modules looked great! I’ve been trying to find sticks of ram for a PowerMac 7600, cause they seem to be a weird size, and the individual sticks I find for sale on eBay are $$$

Going down there tomorrow.

Looks like Steve needs a new mic if the clip failed. Let's contribute to the funds! (Me types "funds" repeatedly into keyboard) Hey, it worked in Sim City.

They're still open!? Time for a pilgrimage...

REPC use to have an original Mac daddy his name was Chris. He helped out a whole generation of Mac users. Lots of great stuff it is best to counter offer their prices on "gamblers" BTW.

OMG! At 1:45 in the video, you see a Commodore 64 with its' monitor and disk drive! I had one of those as a kid, and also an Atari 2600!

I wish modern equivalents of many accessories existed; that enabled up to easily augment today's desktops, laptops, game consoles, etc. Some things are out there as; I was able to use my old Sony PS1/PS2 to GameCube controller adapters; with the GameCube to Nintendo Switch Adapter, to use my duel arcade joystick controller with my Switch, Chromebook, and hopefully my Xbox series X.

We don't have this kind of thing in England :( such a bummer so many things I want, my dream item from having one even I was younger was a 1.42ghz G4 MDD. But I've never found one in 20 years of looking :( your so lucky Steve ❤❤

The Marantz 5.1 reciever at 6:05 was the only real bargain I saw until I looked closely at the sticker and it doesn't turn on! 😂 Awesome awesome shops but yeah, just too pricey for what it is. I'm sure I'd still find some bargains though.

I hope you can see Cathode Ray Dude there

When I was a kid, RE-PC was called Brunos.

Have you been to Weird Stuff in Sunnyvale, CA? Its kind of like a more chaotic REPC

I would've totally picked up that Juniper SRX240 gigabit switch. They use a quad-core Cavium CPU (MIPS64-based) and run Linux, have some cool features like hardware (ultrafast) compression/decompression. Salvaged a Oneblox 3308 (also Cavium) and it's my main home webserver, NAS, media server & SyncThing host. Company behind it went out of business & took their *cloud-based management* of these device out with them so probably lots of these are going to e-waste cuz they don't work anymore. hint: their root filesystem is on a 512GB SATA SSD inside ;)

sound card for use with DigiDesign Pro Tools 4 or 5

Nice, not sure if you seen Cathode Ray Dude’s stuff but this is his stomping ground. He’s done vids here too.

RAM scrounging is the most'est fun. PC-100 or 133 so- dimms in 256k. I splunked for an hour and saw three. I found one bizzare double height 512k stick, guessing it was for a printer.

I'm gonna have to make a trip there to look at some of those CRTs they have.

It's been over twenty year since I last time went there.