First post, by dave343
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Has anyone been to RePC in Seattle WA, and if so are they worth visiting for any 90's hardware? Their store seems quite large, and they say they have bins of parts, and thousands of old PC,but looking for input if it's worth visiting for anything 90's related? Will be Seattle this week. Thanks,
***Update
Thanks for all the feedback, I ended up going to both stores in Seattle and Tukwila. The Tukwila store is definataley the store with all the 386/486/Pentium 1 stuff, LOADS of 386/486 Socket 7 stuff. The only think about the tukwila store is most of the Socket 7, 486 parts don't have a price. Everytime I asked how much, they looked up the going rate on Ebay and ballpacked me a number. I paid $15 for AMD 486 DX2 (the 5V version, which is what I needed). I paid 15 for a K5 PR100 (unfortunately the SSA/5 version), I got a brand new Serial/PS2 Microsoft Mouse in the box, and a new AT Keyboard by PC Concepts in the box. I honestly could have spent days in that store. The frustrating part is seeing how much retro stuff they have in the super large back area, and them saying it still needs to be sorted. They had PILES of AT systems, but not available yet. They did have 2 fully built 386 & 486 systems, but they were asking $125 each.
Funny thing, the Tukwila store had Voodoo 3's but they wanted $100-200 each for them. Well, on my 2nd visit to the Seattle location, I dug through their $2 AGP Video card bin, and what do you know?... a Retail 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 AGP card 😎
I was tempted to get a 486 PCI board from the Tukwila store, but he wanted $100.