I WENT BACK. See the 2022 follow-up video here! kzread.info/dash/bejne/fWGOvM2Tm5y3gs4.html

@MultipleObjectSelector

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for bringing this to a wider audience. Though I'm concerned that this will attract more scalpers - several people have already been banned for greedy behavior. Also, I go to that goodwill a lot. Found a pair of Stax there once.

@garethfairclough8715

5 жыл бұрын

A shame there's no hope of an indiegogo campaign to buy that place or anything like that.

@hazzaknox1069

5 жыл бұрын

Well done LGR for helping to save all of this stuff from the scrapper... there is always a hidden gem somewhere

@Lionbrow

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing!! This place is absolutely nuts. You should add a link to the owners GoFundMe for those who will never be able to get down there.

@jiddro33

5 жыл бұрын

@@MultipleObjectSelector scalerps will be scalpers. and honestly it's better than it ending up in a landfill. but good if the worst of em can be stopped.

That's a ton of drives, there must be 5 whole gigabytes in that room alone

@laharl2k

5 жыл бұрын

I would have taken a bunch more of those mfm drives. Those really are hard to find and could sell pretty well.

@juanpaVlz

5 жыл бұрын

That's like 3 episodes of 1080p Anime :P

@andrive

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@jacquesb5248

5 жыл бұрын

maybe even mfm drives of 10 meg?

@manictiger

4 жыл бұрын

I bet there's drum memory and tape reel computers somewhere in there.

This is a preview of Clint's place in 40 years when he's gone all Howard Hughes

@21stCenturyDub

5 жыл бұрын

The way of the future!

@sasdesignsny9420

5 жыл бұрын

I concur, but I think Clint would keep his place in the best of conditions. He seems like a neat guy. /me thumbsup

@Norweeg

5 жыл бұрын

Or William Randolph Hearst if we are going the route of keeping things nice and organized. Also, KZread instead of newspaper magnate.

@ryan.crosby

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder what his Rosebud will be.

@yak6896

5 жыл бұрын

Show him the blueprints.

Man LGR pulled a grandpa joe when he heard it was closing down lmao

@riz5571

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment 😆

19:30 - no matter where in the world this type of place is, you're always, and I mean always guaranteed to find a Dole banana box.

@TFalkon185

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@blatherbade

3 жыл бұрын

truth

@migman919

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely Dole banana boxes are some of the toughest and most durable boxes ever made. As they were designed to carry bundles and bundles of bananas which are prone to get quiet heavy. As a matter of fact i am eating a banana right now and can you guess how big it was ?. Sincerely: Donkey Kong CEO and President of BANANA CORP

@CrisisGuildWOW

3 жыл бұрын

The bananas were a tax break front. Dole made cardboard boxes....

@K_man217

3 жыл бұрын

I had the exact thought when I saw it. It's truly uncanny

Plot twist: that old server that is still running IS the owner

@billman69

4 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@russellhamner4898

4 жыл бұрын

He uploaded his conscience to that beast! Kurzweil style! He'll live forever now, or until someone hits reset.

@Patchuchan

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like something out of an episode of Ghost in the Shell SAC.

@25566

4 жыл бұрын

that was a cisco switch, not a server..

@VtwinGamingKimico52

4 жыл бұрын

like startrek next generations

this feels like a season finale of thrifts if it was a netflix series

@demogorgonzola

5 жыл бұрын

Honestly it looks like a cross between "Storage Wars" and "Hoarders".

@zacharyandrew4300

5 жыл бұрын

@Spectrum SSS *The Final Thrift*

@sa_exploder

5 жыл бұрын

I like to think of this video as the “Ozymandias” of LGR Thrifts

@colinr0380

5 жыл бұрын

We need the cliffhanger of Clint under a pile of boxes in that warehouse. Will he make it out for season 2?

@SpicyDragonWings

5 жыл бұрын

@Spectrum SSS It is the Metathrift and has reached full sentience

LGR: No i'm too injured. Next: Let me climb this pile.

@dhammarosi

3 жыл бұрын

Motivation 🤣

@stevenrwh

2 жыл бұрын

I was here to say that lol

@conandis5542

2 жыл бұрын

Teddy - that's a great comment 👍 When you've walked into a Gold mine all thoughts of self preservation and protection of your injuries goes out the window!

As elated as I am watching you rummage around finding treasure at every turn, I can't help feeling very, very sad. As the child of an antiques collector, it's just an upside down world for me to realize that unlike furniture and other antiquities that are cherrished, old tech is relegated to piles of junk on a regular basis. Not ever increasing in value, but losing it almost instantly when the new model comes out. Progress moving too fast for the old business model of warehousing stock to be ready for the next rush on something that will never see the light of day again. It just hurts my sense of history.

@paulogarcia1119

2 жыл бұрын

This made me sad too, in a way. It brought me memories of my first interactions with PCs. My school had these awesome pentium II machines with windows 95, we would spend the whole class either on Paint, or fooling around with Word or playing a couple games they had. Awesome times.

@jasonzhang7347

2 жыл бұрын

"One man's trash is another man's treasure" perfectly being explained here

@robertcartier5088

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonzhang7347 Thanks, Jason! ;-)

@8BitNaptime

2 жыл бұрын

Wait about 300 years. A fully functional Commodore 64 with a 1541 would be priceless, so rare they're only in museums. Like a 1750s loom or something.

@ncs9667

2 жыл бұрын

Also from environmental perspective it is sad. This is one warehouse. Imagine how much has gone to landfill. Even if they aren't saved and collected, so much waste. We really need to work on recycling old machines. Or start building them so they can be easily recycled in the future. Instead we are just continuing to mine and trash the planet. I don't want to sound like some hardcore ecowarrior but it definitely isn't a good system we have here.

Actual crime against humanity to bulldoze this place without salvaging the history within.

@ddogg14

5 жыл бұрын

i agree :(

@CommodoreFan64

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed, 100%

@danatronics9039

5 жыл бұрын

Fuck landlords

@dykodesigns

5 жыл бұрын

The place looks like a computer graveyard at the moment. It looks quite sad, the state of it is now. They should save as much of it as possible.

@makrostheblack4791

5 жыл бұрын

The owners should ask for some volunteers to catalog it all. Maybe let said volunteers have a piece or two for the trouble, if some of it was going to get destroyed in the bulldoze anyways... I'd be willing to bet there is a piece or two in there that will never be found again if destroyed now.

So glad the owners changed their plans and didn't dump all that stuff in the scrap bin.

@nullvoid564

5 жыл бұрын

Whats happening have they made some sort of deal to haul that to some storage units or something? you need to find somebody who can get some big trucks there and at least 1 forklift whatever you can do to get these shipped out as job lots.

@tituslafrombois1164

5 жыл бұрын

@@nullvoid564 they decided to capitalize on the wide and spreading interest in their shop by allowing people to come in and dig through it all for money. They'll try to make as much as they can and get rid of as much as they can before they officially shut the place down for good.

@LRCVWDude

5 жыл бұрын

Do they have any way for folks outside of Texas to browse or make purchases? I saw the video and want to get my hands on some Model M keyboards

@nullvoid564

5 жыл бұрын

@@tituslafrombois1164 Dont live in the US but some of those monitors are rare any with odd sized tubes are also a potential gem. Detach stands if you can and have the smallest boxes possible Logistics of these is a bitch though and a box to protect it is not very simple recommend getting a box it fits in and second wrapping the tube in a plastic bag as tight as possible with as little air as possible third place in the box with the empty bags on the air gaps fill 2 - 4 bags with soft shredded garbage and construction foam on the sides and corners and fill them with a solid foam and some soft debris to save material and add strength. Chose a material that will give you a good polystyrene substitute any unboxed need to go in storage and be sorted last those are probably the least at risk and easier to move

@nullvoid564

5 жыл бұрын

@@LRCVWDude write wishlist's on their page and buy it from people who are going there irl facebook.com/groups/627459117730981/ Find out who is local and maybe start sending that guy shopping lists for stuff to eBay if guys know whats sought after they can pick up a bunch and mail em out

The AI archeological robots will go nuts over this mass grave of their ancestors/forebearers, they will learn so much about their prehistory.

@7alken

3 жыл бұрын

ya, mass grave, thats the thing

@daviscampbell9020

3 жыл бұрын

Inferior predecessor models. Mass long term storage unit.

When the place was closed and he pulled out the alcohol I expected him to be like, "So this is where things start to get illegal.."

So much old tech, i'm sure those rats know pascal, COBOL and ANSI C by now

@ezioauditoredafirenze8352

5 жыл бұрын

Heehhehhee 😂😂🤣 Nice one man 👍

@seanc.5310

5 жыл бұрын

I haven't seen many rats get past BASIC

@digitalsaint2040

5 жыл бұрын

rats of NIMH, they are the ones that had the server up.

@thcoura

5 жыл бұрын

Smalltalk too

@itsthesola10

5 жыл бұрын

Hey, don't clump C together with these antiquities!

Words can’t accurately quantify how much is in this place. It’s unreal.

@cutchyacokov

5 жыл бұрын

I just discovered your channel recently (within the last year or so) and thoroughly enjoy it. Why aren't you making videos anymore?

@raelik777

5 жыл бұрын

This is no joke. I've gone twice, about a month apart, and while I could tell people had been picking it over... it's like they barely scratched the surface. It was just as insane, and I found just as much cool stuff the 2nd time I went.

@cardboardboxification

4 жыл бұрын

its just a drop in the bucket compared to what was produced, and resting in land fills now

@billbelzek6748

4 жыл бұрын

I hope this entire place is picked clean --- rotting away in a landfill is not helping humanity

@davidsilverfield835

2 жыл бұрын

Yup

24:15 "Preferably bring a mask." These days, we've got that one covered!

@raven4k998

3 жыл бұрын

yeah maybe not for that but it doubles for that to

This feels like the treasure room in GAUNTLET where there is both excitement and panic at getting everything before times runs out.

And in 40 years from today, the next generation of techies will be sorting thru your warehouse...

@pistool1

4 жыл бұрын

Found a 99% match replica of Clint, please take a look: tinyurl.com/yyfh34gy The guy is a professional speech therapist / lecturer in Finland :)

@Pommezul

4 жыл бұрын

@@pistool1 Seens like Clint have a suomi döppelganger.

@elgee1976

4 жыл бұрын

The beautiful circle of life

@electronixTech

4 жыл бұрын

@@pistool1 Even the glasses are the same.

@BrilliantDesignOnline

3 жыл бұрын

Finally found a stunt double for dangerous things like installing Windows 3.0 No wait, too bad Clint does his own stunts....

camera footage = A+ narration = A+ entertainment value = 10/10

If i had enough money and found this place i would've just bought the whole building, cleaned up one room, put a bed in it and just live the rest of my life there going through everything and tinkering with stuff while listening to music, having some drinks and smoking like a chimney. Perfect life right there.

I feel like they wouldn’t be aloud to demolish the building without emptying it because the amount of lead filled crt’s in there could kill an inter city

@SimonBauer7

2 жыл бұрын

also the vaccuum of the crts would make a small bomb probably

@CricetoFunni

2 жыл бұрын

yeah they'd only be aquiet

40% of my brain: all this vintage computing stuff is so cool, I'd love yo go through and see if I could find some old MSX or PC98 hard/software. 60% of my brain: I MUST LIVE THERE AND ORGANIZE EVERYTHING

@ML_314

4 жыл бұрын

@Giuliano BassWarrior You don't even need to put items for auction. Just put signs around that place saying "$1 per pund" or something, wait at the exit with a big scale and then let people go. Maybe only 20 people a time and only those who really search for something/have passion for this, but man, you'll become a millionaire in weeks! You get rid of that stuff and become rich. If that's not what you're aiming for then so what, just give it away :) People will be happy, you will be happy, everything is great :)

This feels like an “LGR Movie” :)

@DerrickMims

5 жыл бұрын

Ron M Welcome to an LGR Movie Thing.

@Big_Tex

5 жыл бұрын

It's a "very special" LGR episode.

@Yusuke_Denton

5 жыл бұрын

_LGR and The Quest for the RetroWarehouse_

@billbelzek6748

5 жыл бұрын

They need to make a movie similar to "Hot Tub Time Machine" --- Clint disappears into a retro warehouse and is transported back in time to 1976 to destroy Steve Jobs and make sure Apple never existed

@ptah4000

4 жыл бұрын

Rated "R" for retro

Man, this was 2 years ago? I still remember the story about trying to get into Computer Reset like it was yesterday.

Rewatching this while grinding on a deadline, perhaps for the third or fourth time. This may be Clint's best video ever.

@LGR

7 ай бұрын

Glad you think so, and best of luck making the deadline 👍

is it only me that want's so badly to save this place to organize and categorize everything in order to be exposed to the public in a proper manner?

@caseyrevoir

4 жыл бұрын

It is hard for me to walk through an auto wrecking yard for the same reason. I must save my children!

@MrStatistx

4 жыл бұрын

I personally just get stressed out at even the idea of organizing such a place!

@panickypress

4 жыл бұрын

@The Bee Guy Yeah, done right.. better go back and check it 123

@mesquitegirl2013

4 жыл бұрын

no, it would be so cool to get that place in a running manner where collectors and what not can come look for stuff for their collection

@VtwinGamingKimico52

4 жыл бұрын

@@caseyrevoir same here!

That warehouse reminds me on Raiders of the Lost Ark. I mean all of it belongs in a museum.

@antdude

5 жыл бұрын

LGR belongs in a museum. ;)

@Remember_Baker

5 жыл бұрын

Top.... Men.

@curglaff01

5 жыл бұрын

Digging through it has a certain dystopian feel.

@SAerror1

5 жыл бұрын

hopefully no one accidentally opens the ark of the covenant

@pixymisa8087

5 жыл бұрын

Need to build a museum and put the whole warehouse inside.

Owww man, reminds me of a warehouse I briefly worked in, it looked like a bomb had blown inside, everything was a hazard. Only difference there was still some space to move forklifts around. I quit after I saw a 3 meters high pile full of furniture fall down crushing everything on its path. Also this reminds when I move from my parents house, I threw away a lot of old hardware. On my way to the trash there was some neighbors asking me "Do you have more hardware like this?" and they ended up taking up almost everything. One man's junk is another man's treasure

This makes me sad as f**k. I've never seen a building be a true bummer. This stuff looks like a person's life was once great but never got it together by the time it was over.

@benwinter2420

Жыл бұрын

He was happy collecting stuff when still around , he could't take it with him . . he did good work in end saving it

Next on LGR: Clint buys Computer Reset and moves to Dallas.

@Yusuke_Denton

5 жыл бұрын

I honestly thought he'd have considered it.

@Nagalior

5 жыл бұрын

I would say if their little circle all come together and buy the whole place and they'll have enough content for long long time from buying property to sorting and cleaning things up to presenting their finds.

@WillowLackett

4 жыл бұрын

If every subscriber donated $1, he'd easily have been able to do it.

@EuropeYear1917

4 жыл бұрын

"Greetings, and welcome to another LGR Thing! I just bought an entire warehouse of computer goodies in Dallas!" - Clint (probably... you know if he would have bought the whole place)

@davidturner1079

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nagalior TONS of retrobrite for the 8bit geek, tons of reviews and gaming for LGR, It would have worked too.

(Casually uploads the most important retro computing video of 2019)

@ponysoftonline4533

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah pretty much. He has us all either planning a trip to Texas or crying because we can't go

@panpaletkalg2550

5 жыл бұрын

@@ponysoftonline4533 Crying in polish because i can't go

@gabrieleorioli1760

5 жыл бұрын

@@ponysoftonline4533 Second category here.

@voltcorp

5 жыл бұрын

*of the decade

@Tardisntimbits

5 жыл бұрын

@@ponysoftonline4533 Mournfully lamenting that I can't go... -_- *cries in Canadian*

Really positive that it is not just going to the dump. In 1976 about two dozen of us got together and formed the North Texas Computer Hobbyist Group. Some (like me) built S-100, some 6502 based machines, etc. It was an interesting time in computer history when it was possible to know all of the microprocessors, their support chips, memory, etc. I sold a S-100 4K static RAM board. There was a fellow that would buy the scrap chips by the barrel from Mostek, re-test them and sell really cheap. I had 32K of RAM and ran BASIC. That was a lot of memory. ;-) I still have my Apple PB-100. Always like that little guy. Thanks for a great video. Hope your ankle is better.

Just amazing - a truly epic IT archaelogical experience! It does make you wonder what has happened to all of the old technology - CRTs and computers - and then you realise when you see places likes this that it does end up somewhere!

Sierra Online computer from 1990? .... Oh my god! LGR found the lost Leisure Suit Larry 4!

@kylecyr862

5 жыл бұрын

would be awesome if their was a prototype of Leisure Suit Larry 4 on that!!

@davidboden5486

5 жыл бұрын

didnt @metaljesusrocks work at sierra? Maybe he would know someone who knows the details of the workings of that thing

@fensoxx

5 жыл бұрын

Thomas Cohnen retromancave KZread channel JUST interviewed the creator of LSL a couple weeks ago. I’d love to get his eyes on a pic of that machine and see if it tickles any memories. And if anyone hasn’t seen retromancave shame 😉

@peterlamont647

5 жыл бұрын

I think everyone is hoping for source code for some sierra games.

@LGR

5 жыл бұрын

@@peterlamont647 No source code, but there are some nifty QA programs and log files :) And also a custom startup message implying the machine belonged to Ken Williams!

This is like an LGR Thrifts _bonus round_ where you you have to collect as much vintage computer stuff as you can before the clock runs out

@skullwolfsteam

5 жыл бұрын

sounds like those old toys r us timed kids races whare they had to grab as much stuff as they could into a trolly and leg it to the front of the store in a limited amount of time

@rokhamler3352

5 жыл бұрын

before the clock runs out or you get crushed beneath a landslide of computer parts.

@osvaldogandolfo8283

5 жыл бұрын

Thrifts dream.

@IndygoEEI

5 жыл бұрын

Someone seriously make this a video game!

@Best-Match

5 жыл бұрын

LGR Thrifts: Supermarket Sweep

a good amount of this stuff has been sitting in a pile longer than i've been alive

the motherload If they'd just been Ebaying religiously they could have stayed afloat, the value on most of this stuff just goes up up up

@dougtilaran3496

3 жыл бұрын

Mother-father-not sure. Bienvendos 2021

@kaya9293

3 жыл бұрын

Still could

@PoxyBear

3 жыл бұрын

They could have also set up and/or sell, to TV and Film production companies who need vintage computer and broadcast equipment. They could still do this.

This seems like the kind of place where an employee would go missing and be found a week later, crushed under a half ton of adding machines.

@GAIUSJAKE

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@TommyVercettisGamingNews

3 жыл бұрын

A glorious way to go!

@ferencszabo3504

3 жыл бұрын

Just throw a blanket over him and keep digging..

@Addo666

3 жыл бұрын

Like the dead guy found in a store

I can't be the only one who'd want to buy this place and just spend a year off, organizing and reopening it.

@robertwells3019

5 жыл бұрын

I was in the area on vacation at the beginning of the year....my wallet thanks me for not knowing about this place because that is something I would have done....

@NineteenEightyFive

5 жыл бұрын

It's depressing that someone didn't...

@Cole-ek7fh

5 жыл бұрын

LonelyStranger24 buy it and burn it.

@TPc0

5 жыл бұрын

I would def buy it.. but I’m poor

@vicanthonyleriorato8225

5 жыл бұрын

hahahah cards in!

When I’m down and feeling low,i always come back to this video. So great to see inside a dream wearhouse full of exciting bits of tech such as this

Oh man... This makes me really cry, what an amazing place! It's a shame this heaven is on an other continent, soo far away.. I'd spend days there, masterpieces to explore and find!

Here I am, a german dude sitting at his desk watching this video, crying - no chance to get to this place and knowing it soon may be gone forever.

@BvousBrainSystems

5 жыл бұрын

Think about how many places like that exist all over the world, never to be discovered...?

@krzysiekv12

5 жыл бұрын

German dude broke af cant just go there? Germania was rich no?

@ManleyEvangelista

5 жыл бұрын

As someone who lives in Asia. I can sympathize with you.

@theresnoU

5 жыл бұрын

This Spaniard is crying too. At least Clint shared his joy and adventures with us...

@killerbee2562

5 жыл бұрын

Well a ton of the stuff is ending up on ebay for a inflated price.

Damn dude, if I was a billionaire I would just buy the whole place, spend a year cleaning it up, and open it to the public as a proper retro computer store

@windoak2113

5 жыл бұрын

Bradley Hove same tbh

@jacobematt6222

5 жыл бұрын

It would take you a lot more than a year

@MFunkibut

5 жыл бұрын

Buy a new warehouse, lots of bodies, move from point A to point B, repair, recycle.....it would take more than a year

@valrabellkeys9867

5 жыл бұрын

Than the stock would run out and it closes down.

@Renwoxing13

5 жыл бұрын

@@valrabellkeys9867 he said billionaire because no matter what your losing money!

Thanks so much for doing this video. I live a few hours away from Dallas and had an opportunity to go to Computer Reset this past Sunday. Loved it and the volunteers are awesome. I am a "Computer Picker" and love collecting old hardware.

Thanks for sharing your experience! That's an exciting thing to be able to kinda revisit and actually see & touch these interesting pieces of computer equipment from the past. Truly a great and somewhat a mysterious place! )))

We should do a kickstarter to create enough capital for a nonprofit to organize, recycle, and transform this into a museum.

@captaingreenhat

4 жыл бұрын

or a go fund me. I'd donate

@uzivatel56

4 жыл бұрын

This might be the last shop stocked like this. In the world.

@ChrisNystrom

4 жыл бұрын

@@uzivatel56 www.repc.com/

@keselekbakiak

4 жыл бұрын

Selecting and testing which one's actually working and valuable would took years and lots of money.

@uzivatel56

4 жыл бұрын

@@keselekbakiak Those would be some sweet years. It's not like we've got better stuff to do anyway.

It's pretty sad how many pieces of history are just rotting there. I hope over time a lot of it gets properly preserved.

@billbelzek6748

5 жыл бұрын

It makes nauseous to think an Apple I might have been pee'd on by 30 rats and is now too rotten to salvage

@radelta

5 жыл бұрын

I remember when people said the same thing about 90's comic books.

@SnakeBush

5 жыл бұрын

Its trash dude

@jubsy

5 жыл бұрын

@@SnakeBush Call it what you will but a lot of people will pay a lot of money for this stuff. I just made $500 selling an early IBM computer that this guy apparently has pallets of.

@HunterShows

4 жыл бұрын

IMO, I'll bet 90% is going in the trash one way or another. Hard to say. This is a task that demands care, time, space, money. Unfortunately there is too much and it's too disorganized an effort.

We can se a lot of passion in what you do in your videos. You really deserve every single subscriber here. Greetings from Brazil.

It's almost surreal watching this again after the new video Clint posted from this year. You can recognize rooms and areas and wow are they different. It would be awesome to see more footage from this 2019 trip.

OMG I used to work there way back between 1998 and 1999. It is pretty amazing to see the office again and I did not know that Richard was closing the place down. I actually at one point tried to organize the software area on the left of the entrance, but even at the time we had so much stuff that it was impossible.

@buruunobanri7905

5 жыл бұрын

The area that you described as meticulously organized at one point, that was myself and my father doing. We spent a week on that room. We were so proud when done. Then we realized we would never get the whole "warehouse" done that way.

@buruunobanri7905

5 жыл бұрын

The AV area was built by some music people who rented that room for a period.

@buruunobanri7905

5 жыл бұрын

@@bichela I am sorry, what server are you talking about? I have note worked there for 20 years. They might have changed somethings since then.

so THAT'S why you could never find any good computer related stuff at goodwill all these years! it was all in here!

@ddogg14

5 жыл бұрын

exactly what i was thinking!

@billbelzek6748

5 жыл бұрын

He could literally move into that building and have enough stuff for 10 years of LGR videos

@Cheepchipsable

3 жыл бұрын

Someone needs to buy and open the stuff first before they donate it to good will.

I loved digging through rummage sales in the mid 2000s for vintage Macintosh stuff. Vintage PCs truly were my hobby back then, and watching this video (and your entire channel) makes me really miss it. This place is nothing short of awesome. Everything you've shown reminds me of a time when personal computers still felt "new and exciting". Things were evolving so rapidly, it seems like every time you booted up a machine, or dialed in with your modem, you were making new discoveries. I'm not sure when computers stopped feeling that way (at least for me), but the chase of that "new and exciting" feelings I got with machines of the past is why I love this retro hardware so much.

Thank you for showing me this!!! I was in complete awe the entire time.

This warehouse alone could cripple the ebay market and drive prices down.

@shadowking141ghost

4 жыл бұрын

speedyspeeds and others like it

@billbelzek6748

4 жыл бұрын

I hope it does --- eBay doesn't have a corner on the retro market

@HunterShows

4 жыл бұрын

Fuck the eBay market.

Is this the start of LGR Hoarders? This is like decades worth of not selling and then not throwing out old stuff.

@BdR76

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah there's a story here alright, probably a tragic one, I understand why LGR's doesn't say too much about it. But still it's kind of weird, LGR's cheery tone juxtaposed with the dilapidated store, there's even Portal-esque scribblings on the wall at 15:32

@txcforever

5 жыл бұрын

@@BdR76 Hoarding seems to be an issue for a lot of people, especially when they don't have space/storage issue. People gathering everything thinking that at some point it will get valuable but they get too attached to them and refuse to sell anything except for a shitload of money.

@xxtovarichxx

5 жыл бұрын

This makes me think of all the times I lost bids on PC components and tech back in the day on ebay. Its honestly sad to think that alot of people missed out on owning some of these items because someone was hording it all.

@ching-chenhuang8119

5 жыл бұрын

Not really, LGR is already hoarding things.....

@txcforever

5 жыл бұрын

@@ching-chenhuang8119 He is a collector. He picks up things he plans on using/fixing/displaying. Pretty different thing.

This is the holy grail, the mecca, whatever you want to call it - for retro computing collectors. I'm insanely envious. I can imagine myself exploring that place and lamenting not being able to bring lots and lots of tech back to my country. How many places like this can there be in the world? Absolutely mind blown

This video is like a great song. I've watched it several times now - and each time when you lock that door and say "Welcome everyone, to Computer Reset.", I get goosebumps. Insane.

This is the sort of place you'd raid in a Fallout mission for some obscure computer component.

@SamO-ik2cm

4 жыл бұрын

It has that vibe

@WillowLackett

4 жыл бұрын

I wish fallout 4 had a place like this. Sooo much aluminum, copper wire, potentially crystal...

"If you do want to skip just to the showing off of the place itself..." Skip 13 minutes of Clint's dulcet tones and cadence? Not on your life, sir.

@carpesolis

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@redfonzie21

5 жыл бұрын

Never. Never a second.

@antdude

5 жыл бұрын

I was going to skip, but decided to listen. It was worth listening. His trip almost failed too.

@Pommezul

4 жыл бұрын

Skipping any part of his videos is against the principles.

@somar814

4 жыл бұрын

I did skip the first 12 minutes or so because of too much chatter about nothing. Why can't they get to the point of the video to start with.

This brings back memories from my childhood where I would go to the local computer store with my cousin and we would dig through the scrap computers and parts in the outside recycling area before the company who did the recycling for them came to pick it up. We would grab all the cool parts we could find and then compete to build computers and show off the cool things we found:)

Whoa!!! That's heaven on earth! Oh, the nostalgia!!! Think of all the hidden treasures buried in there! I could spend months and months and months just looking at things. It's so sad knowing it's all closed forever.

Everyone: "We want more thrifting!" LGR: "Hold my RAM"

@antdude

5 жыл бұрын

"Memory is RAM." --IT Crowds' Moss from kzread.info/dash/bejne/gJiGp6eclsTPmMo.html

@lelandclayton5462

5 жыл бұрын

@@antdude See the driver hooks a function by patching the system call table, so it's not safe to unload it unless another thread's about to jump in there and do its stuff, and you don't want to end up in the middle of invalid memory!

@oldrandomcomputing6247

5 жыл бұрын

*Chrome wants to know your location.*

@111455

5 жыл бұрын

warehouse:opens Clint: happy pcm noises

@gamerskills1571

4 жыл бұрын

Hmm ...

seriously this place needs some serious sorting and documetation. It's like an archaeological site!

@bluecar5556

5 жыл бұрын

Sorting? That would take many people a very long time.

@LostArchivist

4 жыл бұрын

@@bluecar5556 That is what interns are for.

@justletmelistthese

4 жыл бұрын

@@LostArchivist intern? try volunteers.

@billbelzek6748

4 жыл бұрын

I would agree --- this is like the mother lode of computer history --- we need to preserve it for humanity

@Bangulo

4 жыл бұрын

Id love to do it haha.

that is amazing and yeah I'd love to go through all that and take some home, but there's also something a little sad about the place too, like a giant tech-graveyard

Truly amazing, it's Nerdvana! Thank you for sharing this!

LGR looking at the state of his own house in 60 years

I kinda expected for Clint to say "I just bought the whole thing"

@brandonbishop8522

5 жыл бұрын

"I don't really have the space for it but the price was pretty decent and hey, can always use some more stuff for future videos!"

@EuropeYear1917

4 жыл бұрын

"Greetings, and welcome to another LGR... Warehouse Thing! That's right! I'm moving to Dallas! I bought an entire warehouse of old retro tech that'll keep me busy for decades!" - Clint (if he'd have bought the whole warehouse)

@zanite8650

4 жыл бұрын

"This is where I live now!"

OMG, coolest video ever. I am a graphic designer and I remember I started with Windows 3.1. Those were times!

@fischergriess6321

2 жыл бұрын

Was it CorelDraw for Windows 3.1 in 1995?

Wow, that place is like a larger version of my dads room and shed. He was a computer repair guy from the 80’s-2000’s and accumulated a LOT of stuff since then, each one of his drawers has some kind of dell power supply and canon camera, our shed is just full of computers and keyboards , PDAs, sd cards, monitors, ram, cds, just on the floor, basically a smaller scaled version of this place but none of it’s for sale.

You know you're getting old when you start remembering installing those things for clients.

@billbelzek6748

5 жыл бұрын

Some of that stuff I can remember seeing in my grade school library in the late 70's

"We're selling to collectors and *donating to verified museums*" *SIGH OF RELIEF SO HARD I STARTED COUGHING*

@Arcadecomponentscom

5 жыл бұрын

The PCjr puzzle, the PCjr advertising banner, and the NIB Bally Astrocade controllers I bought there are being donated by me to the National Videogame Museum. :)

@Tech-hn4pw

5 жыл бұрын

@@Arcadecomponentscom awesome!

@uzivatel56

4 жыл бұрын

@@Arcadecomponentscom You just might go to heaven.

@EuropeYear1917

4 жыл бұрын

@@uzivatel56 Might?! He did the Lord's work by donating them. He is certainly going to heaven for it.

i come back to this video each now and again just for the vibe and absolute quality content

Loved these computer part / electronic outlet type places when I was a kid. They were so cool to me. Got my first 1x CD-ROM at one in a box full of them.

On the one hand, it's cool to see all this stuff. On the other hand, I feel bad for the owner and his family. He clearly had a passion at one time but it seems like it became overwhelming.

@gdeangelkick

4 жыл бұрын

My guess is that this business was on the losing end of the shift from "own" to "lease" economics in the 1990s (which seems to be through when they were acquiring stuff). But I would think some more backstory about the place would make this video more interesting. Archeology without historical knowledge is basically play time.

@billbelzek6748

4 жыл бұрын

Technology was VERY hard to keep up with in the 90's --- I bought my first PC in 1993 and spent $3500 for it --- by 1996 it was already slow and clunky and spent $2600 on another PC --- and that PC was already obsolte by 1999

@harveywallbanger3123

4 жыл бұрын

@@billbelzek6748 So true. The idea of paying >$1000 for anything but a gaming/media editing computer nowadays is ludicrious in an era of $400 Dells on Craigslist. My family's first Windows 95 Pentium machine went for like $2,000 (with the monitor being the most expensive single component and the Win95 license being the second most). Ludicrous.

@davidsandberg3109

4 жыл бұрын

I almost ended up like this with Subaru stuff in just four years.

@_Scintill8tor

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Belzek I remember getting my first (IBM clone) 386 in 1993. It came with a coprocessor. I paid a fair amount, I clearly remember. I think I also switched to a new one in 1995!

Ebaying this stuff could be source of employment and income for at least 6 people for decades!

@ruslannabioullin3664

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure that there's too much demand for legacy setups, though I suppose that there's some demand from hobbyists as well. From an objective technical perspective, it's pretty much all junk, except for spare nonmonitor parts that are useful for legacy setups that use either standalone or embedded PCs (e.g., test equipment, scientific instrumentation, factory equipment, military, aerospace, building automation). When I was less enlightened I figured that old IT is useless and junk due to Moore's Law, but n.b. not all tech advances superexponentially (e.g., I was recently looking at calibration standards from the 50s, which haven't changed much in all the decades, at least for secondary use), and said tech might be closely integrated with the computer tech of its era (i.e., it's not the case that one can simply slap on a modern laptop with a VM or something)---now I save a reasonable amount of it for use in such applications (because I do work with test equipment, instrumentation, and specialty servers that don't have a good modern equivalent).

@chaztitan6457

4 жыл бұрын

I thought of museum or something similar to you idea. I just wonder what the rent etc is. its not making money, its costing. So i dont know if selling the 6 peoples items, giving them enough income and still pay for its rent. I mean it would take a month just to get it up and running with more than 6 to start. trim later.. thats my two sense. i think 100 people of honest nature to help filter some of the stuff and get a funding to put them in a museum or start a new one

@12345656012

4 жыл бұрын

I saw the video and have spent a whole ten mins looking up more info but apparently the owner was an Ebay seller before falling ill.

@KyrstOak

4 жыл бұрын

@@chaztitan6457 two *cents 🙄

@wildbill23c

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately that's what a select few have been doing that they let in...and what I originally thought when this video was first released that a select few people would go through there and grab everything they possibly could and start selling it all on ebay for ridiculous prices...and apparently after reading some recent comments those select few have been doing just that. I'd love a few of those old machines just to have them....I like the old electronic stuff for the nostalgia mostly and to hang onto.

Argh I really wanna get in there and organize that whole place! It's glorious.

Ya know bro, I’m more of a specialized PC collector, mostly Alienware from early 2000’s... but this... this was amazing!!!!!!! My mind was blown just watching it, I can’t imagine being there! Great vid brother 💯💯

It took 4KB to fly to the Moon. With this stuff we might get to Proxima Centauri.

@JamesLehartProductions

4 жыл бұрын

@@arreff2012 or you just need an education and stop believing Derek from youtube

Holly crap! Probably a combined 128GB ram memory in this building

@blazer666del

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

Good ol' Dallas, Texas. Thanks for the tour!

went there myself a couple of days ago. really wish i could have gone during the beginning. and trust me, if you haven't gone yet, GO! a flat rate of $150 dollars to go and take whatever you want is an incredibly good deal and its an absolute rite of passage to visit even for a short couple of hours! even though 60 percent and the good stuff was gone already, i found a bunch of stuff that i was looking for. they are still bringing down stuff from the 3rd level shelving in the warehouse section so there is still new stuff to be uncovered! and LGRs couple of very well made videos on Computer Reset dont do the place justice! its one thing seeing the place in a video and then actually going there and seeing it for yourself. Absolutely mind-blowing and fun!

When you got to the top of the PC pile I imagined you swimming through it like Scrooge McDuck

@KarryKarryKarry

4 жыл бұрын

Ninjachucks - Just tossing them into the air and letting them hit him on the head huueeh huueehh!

Clints true dream, I'm surprised the video didn't end with him telling us that he bought the place and is moving in.

@MagBuckley

5 жыл бұрын

Awww man I was expecting that, too!

@Lightning666

5 жыл бұрын

Shut up and take my money!

@thomasleeuwen124

5 жыл бұрын

I literally thought that the first 13 minutes were there to explain he bought the entire place so it wouldnt end up in a landfill/bulldozered.

@ivanr3107

5 жыл бұрын

me too, I was thinking it would be a perfect place to start LGR Museum!

@LGR

5 жыл бұрын

@@thomasleeuwen124 Honestly, before things got sorted out I had a couple discussions about what it would cost to buy the place out! Wasn't an entirely unreasonable sum in my opinion, but the property taxes and recycling fees alone would've been a bigger issue. Thankfully another solution was reached :)

I wish I could upvote this video more than once! Thanks for posting, I greatly enjoyed this!

This video gave me a weird feeling like I was seeing the whole history of computers, businesses, users, everything connected to this equipment all at once. It makes the 80's and the 2020's not feel very far apart, just a bit of time inbetween.

@daveidmarx8296

Жыл бұрын

It really isn't that far apart. As someone who was born in 1970, I remember when the Atari 2600 came out (I wanted one so bad for Christmas '78, but got a Coleco Telstar Arcade instead). Time flies by so fast and it's easy to just accumulate mounds of stuff, especially when you're actively buying it for years and years. My brother got into the retro computer/video gamecollecting thing in the mid-90s and soon lost interest, but not before buying several different systems he'd find at garage sales and flea markets. He cleaned everything up and neatly boxed and labelled everything and it just sat in our parents' garage for decades. Just last year, he told me I could have it if I was interested and I grabbed everything. Still haven't had the time to fully go through it all, but it's a treasure trove of early '80s technology. A few Vic-20s (with tape drives and all the connecting cables), 4 or 5 2600s (4 and 6 switch models), Colecovisions, 7800s, Intellivisions and hundreds of cartridges with some still sealed. And they're all packed in boxes with crumpled up newspapers (all dating to 1995) to keep things in place. That's just one guy buying up stuff he found for about a year or so. But I remember when he was doing that, and it doesn't seem that long ago but here we are almost 30 years later. So yeah, the stuff is all on a fairly recent timeline (especially when you see stuff from over 100 years ago at antique malls). I won't be around to witness it, but it's interesting to think how all this early computer stuff will be regarded in another 50 or 100 years time.

What if someone was trapped inside of that still running server just like in Tron Legacy.

@thedefinitionofgamer1392

4 жыл бұрын

"He unplugged it"

@Yusuke_Denton

4 жыл бұрын

Oops!

@SkylarsTerribleMemes

4 жыл бұрын

I think it's actually a network switch.

@thedefinitionofgamer1392

4 жыл бұрын

@@SkylarsTerribleMemes i know we were just making a reference

@Matlockization

4 жыл бұрын

You sir have a fantastic imagination.

I'm sure Jason Scott from archive.org would like to see some of those floppies.

@ChrisKewl

5 жыл бұрын

@JimCG I can assure you we are archiving all of these system disks. That is one of the goals of the volunteers here at Computer Reset.

@bhume7535

5 жыл бұрын

oh thank god.

@cutchyacokov

5 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisKewl Oh, you volunteer there? Could you enlighten us further on the situation? Clint made it sound like the owner is on his deathbed and the family has (or had, sounds like the situation has improved) no idea what to do with it.

@Asdayasman

5 жыл бұрын

I seem to remember Jason Scott had a google alert set up for his own name, and would turn up like Betelgeuse. Where is he? Jason Scott Jason Scott Jason Scott.

@metalcreatures3039

5 жыл бұрын

Don't copy that floppy.

Heartbreaking, breath taking... ty! This was a fun episode 😄🥰

I always come back and watch this on slow cold days with a cuppa coffee

has a channel of retro computing and retro stuff...goes to literally retro heaven...brings back...A POWER CORD! Edit due to likes: The video was awesome. Lots of hard work, good pacing and editing.

@Thedaveyht3

5 жыл бұрын

Just made my day!!! :)

@Boltscrap

5 жыл бұрын

I mean, those small accessories, even ones that are needed to have the machines run, are often even harder to find than just the large boxes that are hard to misplace.

@BrilliantDesignOnline

3 жыл бұрын

They sneak a power cord into every order. They have a running bet how long it will take to get rid of all of them; Some say 150 years.

I wouldn't mind watching the uncut version of this. wow what a trip this was!

@roryos

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed!!

This is like 15-20 from where I live. I will definitely be checking this place out to save some of this cool old tech!

Nice trip back in time. Thanks for the video.

Kind of puts in perspective of what is really rare. There's always some guy who has a warehouse full of "junk" which is sought after. Thanks for sharing

@MrEightThreeOne

5 жыл бұрын

Dude, tell me about it. I live in the area and am active in our local retrocomputing scene -- for year after year, I always thought of all my old x86 machines as getting hard to find and rare to see still working. So, when I first walked into this store (last year or so ago), and saw all THIS...boy, that sure put it all in perspective. Almost came off as a lesson in material possessions. In fact, some of us have actually started speculating if the existence of this warehouse will affect the market value of some items, as we've found boxes full of things previously thought to be close to non-existent in volume.

@Khunark

Жыл бұрын

@@MrEightThreeOne I'm having the same thoughts. How did things pan out on that front?

There really are a lot of parallels between old-school computer people like Clint and car guys. This decrepit store to normos looks like nothing but a trash heap but to the right person it's pure treasure. A literal junkyard will look like just that....but not to someone who needs an ICV for a Mk I VW Golf Cabriolet.

@redzeppelin6

5 жыл бұрын

It burns my soul to see classic cars rot away

@tOSdude

5 жыл бұрын

It burns my soul to see anything useful rot away

@sampleentry5253

5 жыл бұрын

tosdude That's a whole lotta burnin'

@Flint_Ironstag

5 жыл бұрын

When Clint first showed up in the comments of Regular Car Reviews I lost my shit

More a Commodore collector here, but this was still amazing to see. The IBM guys must have been in heaven there.

I saw this when you first put it out but it was good to see it again. :)

I so badly want to organise the entire place 😭

@Slopmaster

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not the computer stuff, it’s the OCD

@raulgarcia1142

3 жыл бұрын

@@Slopmaster Monica?????

@_S.H_

2 жыл бұрын

Man, same here! I dream of owning the whole place to myself so that I could just sit and sort it all.

@Miakel

2 жыл бұрын

I know, I just want to start stacking stuff, I feel I could simply stack it back in the racks and throw a heap of boxes into a recycle bin and make a heap of difference to the place.

@SwampRatSmith

2 жыл бұрын

You would die of natural causes before you finished

Do yourself a favor, do NOT skip ahead! Watch the whole video.

@JohnDoe-oy1xd

5 жыл бұрын

I have 0 interest in computers but i watched the entire video. Clint is such a charming fellow

@srtech2205

5 жыл бұрын

Every second spent watching this video is time well spent!!!! Do NOT skip ahead!!!!

@gamerskills1571

4 жыл бұрын

Ok

I like the vintage stereo equipment you have on your desk too.