Weirdstuff Warehouse – Weirdstuff

WeirdStuff Warehouse — Reopening 2026

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.

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Aisle Map · 1986 → 2026

Four decades, four aisles.

The short version of how a floppy-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 the moment a product line ended.

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

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.

Check Out The Inventory (408) 482-8152

San Jose, CA — call to schedule a pickup time.