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Discovering Retro Treasures at RE-PC in Seattle
Discovering Retro Treasures at RE-PC in Seattle Washington!
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Recently I visited the Seattle area and visited two RE-PC stores full of all sorts of cool vintage gear, let’s check out what I picked up …
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11:27 Co-incidentally, I unwrapped my first Zip disk only yesterday – it was made by Fujifilm and bragged about "ATOMM" dual-coating to enhance durability, which made me wonder: did Zip disks have a problem with durability, and were enhanced coatings common?
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.
That Audiomedia II card would've likely been used with ProTools for multi-track audio recording and editing. I may have an Audiomedia III card laying aroud if you're interested. See you at VCF-East. I'll have my EEP! shirt on!
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
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.
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 😀
The ADB Hasp dongle could be from an old copy of QuarkXPress. I used to do Tech support the them many years ago, and all international versions of QuarkXPress required a hardware dongle. Caused a lot of headaches when the iMac came out. May want to check out XPress version 3.14 – 4.0. No idea what happened after v4.0 as I left the company by then.
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.
Nice, not sure if you seen Cathode Ray Dude’s stuff but this is his stomping ground. He’s done vids here too.
Loved your video. I was wondering if you can help me find a datasheet pdf for Samsung K4J55323QF-VC16 GDDR3 256bit memory? All I can find is a data sheet for K4J55323QF-GC16. Thank you in advance.
Those prices are OUCH. Like for AS-IS they are asking a premium. Surplus gizmos tries to be under ebay prices.
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.
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.
Hello friend, at the beginning of the video are the filming locations of Twin Peaks?
I wish there were more places like this in the DC area…
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 $$$
This place looks like an organized & structured version of a tweaker’s paradise. Five hours into the tweaker crap, five hours out.
I'm gonna have to make a trip there to look at some of those CRTs they have.
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'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!
Wish I would have known about this place last time I was in Seattle.
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.
The 30-pin RAM with male pins is actually "SIPP" memory for an early 286.
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.
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! 😍
Great video, thank you for documenting that place! And nice finds!
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! 🙂
Going down there tomorrow.
Cool! I give them things and buy things from them.
Oh wow! That place would have given me a buffer overrun! Thanks for sharing. Poor Tom! 😂
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 😂
Kinda makes VCF east swap meet look small by comparison…. But your re pc visit looks like a great way to kill an afternoon getting lost in the adventure of “the hunt” for unique and hard to find stuff not easily found. Still, the prices …. Scream … “I know what I got guy on eBay” and kills the experience.
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.
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
where the hell are all the stores like this near me, smh
did you bump into cathode ray dude?
When in doubt, more tape on the shirt. 🤣
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.