STATUS
BACK
ONLINE
SAN JOSE, CA →
Est. 1986 · Online Store Live · 2026
For 32 years, the original surplus warehouse was the closest thing Silicon Valley had to a museum
you could dig through with your own hands. The online store is back for 2026.
Same instinct — one engineer’s junk is the next engineer’s prototype — browse the inventory online,
then set up an appointment to pick it up at the warehouse in San Jose, CA.
The short version of how a floppy-drive/Hard-Drive engineer’s side hustle became a Silicon Valley
landmark, closed, and is now being rebuilt for a new generation of tinkerers.
1ORIGIN
1986
An engineer, a warehouse, a truckload of “trash”
Founded by a former engineer at floppy-drive maker Shugart Associates, after watching
perfectly good hardware get tossed out by many Silicon Valley companies.
2PEAK
1990s–2000s
27,000 sq ft of everything
The dot-com boom flooded the aisles with surplus. Engineers, students, and startups treated the place
like a free walk-through of computing history — with a price tag.
3CLOSURE
April 2018
The lease ran out
Nearby expansion by a major tech campus took the property. After 32 years, the doors closed for what
everyone assumed was the last time.
4REVIVAL
2026
Back online, based in San Jose
Same appetite for the strange, the surplus, and the salvageable — now an online store backed by
a warehouse in San Jose, CA. Browse the inventory, then set up an appointment to pick it up.
What’s Coming Back To The Shelves
Cool stuff. Random stuff. Weird stuff.
Inventory changes daily and nothing is organized like a normal store — that was always
the point. Here’s what to expect on the bins.
BIN 01
Machines
Vintage & surplus desktops
Workstations, servers
Rack equipment
BIN 02
Networking
Switches & routers
Fiber modules
Cable by the foot
BIN 03
Components
Boards, CPUs, RAM
Power supplies
Fans & heatsinks
BIN 04
Test Gear
Oscilloscopes
Logic analyzers
Signal generators
BIN 05
Storage
Drives, tape, SCSI
Removable media
Enclosures
BIN 06
Everything Else
Connectors & odds
Industrial controls
Prototype hardware
Lab Gear
The Relaunch
Vintage tech. Modern ideas.
The new WeirdStuff keeps the instinct that made the original a Silicon Valley institution —
salvage over landfill, discovery over a search bar — now running as an online store backed by
a warehouse in San Jose, CA. Browse the inventory in the store, then set up an appointment to
pick it up in person.
32Years, Original Run SJWarehouse, San Jose CA 2026Online Store Live
San Jose, CA
Pickup by appointment
Check out the inventory in the store, then call to set up an appointment to pick it up at the
San Jose warehouse.
