Exploring a MASSIVE Retro Computer Warehouse!
2019 ж. 11 Шіл.
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No joke, this place is truly mind-blowing! Taking a tour of Computer Reset in Dallas, Texas. It's a closed down vintage computer shop that's been largely abandoned and has stayed relatively untouched for years. Enjoy the mountains of computer hardware and software!
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I WENT BACK. See the 2022 follow-up video here! kzhead.info/sun/fpGTis-SomuHhaM/bejne.html
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.
A shame there's no hope of an indiegogo campaign to buy that place or anything like that.
Well done LGR for helping to save all of this stuff from the scrapper... there is always a hidden gem somewhere
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.
@@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
I would have taken a bunch more of those mfm drives. Those really are hard to find and could sell pretty well.
That's like 3 episodes of 1080p Anime :P
Lol
maybe even mfm drives of 10 meg?
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
The way of the future!
I concur, but I think Clint would keep his place in the best of conditions. He seems like a neat guy. /me thumbsup
Or William Randolph Hearst if we are going the route of keeping things nice and organized. Also, KZhead instead of newspaper magnate.
I wonder what his Rosebud will be.
Show him the blueprints.
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.
Lol
truth
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
The bananas were a tax break front. Dole made cardboard boxes....
I had the exact thought when I saw it. It's truly uncanny
Man LGR pulled a grandpa joe when he heard it was closing down lmao
Underrated comment 😆
this feels like a season finale of thrifts if it was a netflix series
Honestly it looks like a cross between "Storage Wars" and "Hoarders".
@Spectrum SSS *The Final Thrift*
I like to think of this video as the “Ozymandias” of LGR Thrifts
We need the cliffhanger of Clint under a pile of boxes in that warehouse. Will he make it out for season 2?
@Spectrum SSS It is the Metathrift and has reached full sentience
Plot twist: that old server that is still running IS the owner
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
He uploaded his conscience to that beast! Kurzweil style! He'll live forever now, or until someone hits reset.
Sounds like something out of an episode of Ghost in the Shell SAC.
that was a cisco switch, not a server..
like startrek next generations
LGR: No i'm too injured. Next: Let me climb this pile.
Motivation 🤣
I was here to say that lol
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!
The AI archeological robots will go nuts over this mass grave of their ancestors/forebearers, they will learn so much about their prehistory.
ya, mass grave, thats the thing
Inferior predecessor models. Mass long term storage unit.
So glad the owners changed their plans and didn't dump all that stuff in the scrap bin.
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.
@@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.
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
@@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
@@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
Words can’t accurately quantify how much is in this place. It’s unreal.
I just discovered your channel recently (within the last year or so) and thoroughly enjoy it. Why aren't you making videos anymore?
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.
its just a drop in the bucket compared to what was produced, and resting in land fills now
I hope this entire place is picked clean --- rotting away in a landfill is not helping humanity
Yup
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.
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.
"One man's trash is another man's treasure" perfectly being explained here
@@jasonzhang7347 Thanks, Jason! ;-)
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.
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.
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
Heehhehhee 😂😂🤣 Nice one man 👍
I haven't seen many rats get past BASIC
rats of NIMH, they are the ones that had the server up.
Smalltalk too
Hey, don't clump C together with these antiquities!
This feels like an “LGR Movie” :)
Ron M Welcome to an LGR Movie Thing.
It's a "very special" LGR episode.
_LGR and The Quest for the RetroWarehouse_
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
Rated "R" for retro
Rewatching this while grinding on a deadline, perhaps for the third or fourth time. This may be Clint's best video ever.
Glad you think so, and best of luck making the deadline 👍
This feels like the treasure room in GAUNTLET where there is both excitement and panic at getting everything before times runs out.
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.
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.
The AV area was built by some music people who rented that room for a period.
@@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.
And in 40 years from today, the next generation of techies will be sorting thru your warehouse...
Found a 99% match replica of Clint, please take a look: tinyurl.com/yyfh34gy The guy is a professional speech therapist / lecturer in Finland :)
@@pistool1 Seens like Clint have a suomi döppelganger.
The beautiful circle of life
@@pistool1 Even the glasses are the same.
Finally found a stunt double for dangerous things like installing Windows 3.0 No wait, too bad Clint does his own stunts....
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.
Man, this was 2 years ago? I still remember the story about trying to get into Computer Reset like it was yesterday.
That warehouse reminds me on Raiders of the Lost Ark. I mean all of it belongs in a museum.
LGR belongs in a museum. ;)
Top.... Men.
Digging through it has a certain dystopian feel.
hopefully no one accidentally opens the ark of the covenant
Need to build a museum and put the whole warehouse inside.
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
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
before the clock runs out or you get crushed beneath a landslide of computer parts.
Thrifts dream.
Someone seriously make this a video game!
LGR Thrifts: Supermarket Sweep
24:15 "Preferably bring a mask." These days, we've got that one covered!
yeah maybe not for that but it doubles for that to
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
Actual crime against humanity to bulldoze this place without salvaging the history within.
i agree :(
Agreed, 100%
Fuck landlords
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.
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.
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.
Lmao
A glorious way to go!
Just throw a blanket over him and keep digging..
Like the dead guy found in a store
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!
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.
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
@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 :)
camera footage = A+ narration = A+ entertainment value = 10/10
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.
He was happy collecting stuff when still around , he could't take it with him . . he did good work in end saving it
a good amount of this stuff has been sitting in a pile longer than i've been alive
so THAT'S why you could never find any good computer related stuff at goodwill all these years! it was all in here!
exactly what i was thinking!
He could literally move into that building and have enough stuff for 10 years of LGR videos
Someone needs to buy and open the stuff first before they donate it to good will.
(Casually uploads the most important retro computing video of 2019)
Yeah pretty much. He has us all either planning a trip to Texas or crying because we can't go
@@ponysoftonline4533 Crying in polish because i can't go
@@ponysoftonline4533 Second category here.
*of the decade
@@ponysoftonline4533 Mournfully lamenting that I can't go... -_- *cries in Canadian*
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
also the vaccuum of the crts would make a small bomb probably
yeah they'd only be aquiet
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!
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?
It is hard for me to walk through an auto wrecking yard for the same reason. I must save my children!
I personally just get stressed out at even the idea of organizing such a place!
@The Bee Guy Yeah, done right.. better go back and check it 123
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
@@caseyrevoir same here!
Sierra Online computer from 1990? .... Oh my god! LGR found the lost Leisure Suit Larry 4!
would be awesome if their was a prototype of Leisure Suit Larry 4 on that!!
didnt @metaljesusrocks work at sierra? Maybe he would know someone who knows the details of the workings of that thing
Thomas Cohnen retromancave KZhead 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 😉
I think everyone is hoping for source code for some sierra games.
@@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!
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
Mother-father-not sure. Bienvendos 2021
Still could
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.
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!
It's pretty sad how many pieces of history are just rotting there. I hope over time a lot of it gets properly preserved.
It makes nauseous to think an Apple I might have been pee'd on by 30 rats and is now too rotten to salvage
I remember when people said the same thing about 90's comic books.
Its trash dude
@@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.
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.
I can't be the only one who'd want to buy this place and just spend a year off, organizing and reopening it.
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....
It's depressing that someone didn't...
LonelyStranger24 buy it and burn it.
I would def buy it.. but I’m poor
hahahah cards in!
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.
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.
Next on LGR: Clint buys Computer Reset and moves to Dallas.
I honestly thought he'd have considered it.
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.
If every subscriber donated $1, he'd easily have been able to do it.
"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)
@@Nagalior TONS of retrobrite for the 8bit geek, tons of reviews and gaming for LGR, It would have worked too.
Is this the start of LGR Hoarders? This is like decades worth of not selling and then not throwing out old stuff.
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
@@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.
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.
Not really, LGR is already hoarding things.....
@@ching-chenhuang8119 He is a collector. He picks up things he plans on using/fixing/displaying. Pretty different thing.
I came across the real estate listing for the place shortly after the 2022 revisit, showing the place after it was finally cleaned out, and it was just CAVERNOUS!
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
We should do a kickstarter to create enough capital for a nonprofit to organize, recycle, and transform this into a museum.
or a go fund me. I'd donate
This might be the last shop stocked like this. In the world.
@@uzivatel56 www.repc.com/
Selecting and testing which one's actually working and valuable would took years and lots of money.
@@keselekbakiak Those would be some sweet years. It's not like we've got better stuff to do anyway.
seriously this place needs some serious sorting and documetation. It's like an archaeological site!
Sorting? That would take many people a very long time.
@@bluecar5556 That is what interns are for.
@@LostArchivist intern? try volunteers.
I would agree --- this is like the mother lode of computer history --- we need to preserve it for humanity
Id love to do it haha.
OMG, coolest video ever. I am a graphic designer and I remember I started with Windows 3.1. Those were times!
Was it CorelDraw for Windows 3.1 in 1995?
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.
When you got to the top of the PC pile I imagined you swimming through it like Scrooge McDuck
Ninjachucks - Just tossing them into the air and letting them hit him on the head huueeh huueehh!
It took 4KB to fly to the Moon. With this stuff we might get to Proxima Centauri.
@@arreff2012 or you just need an education and stop believing Derek from youtube
Actually I never dreamed of having a retro PC until I started watching these videos on KZhead. Now I really miss my first PC from 1996.
Pretty amazing. You almost feel bad for the owner. Computer gear was/is so unique in the way that it had such a short relevant lifespan. At least in the market sense.
This is the sort of place you'd raid in a Fallout mission for some obscure computer component.
It has that vibe
I wish fallout 4 had a place like this. Sooo much aluminum, copper wire, potentially crystal...
You know you're getting old when you start remembering installing those things for clients.
Some of that stuff I can remember seeing in my grade school library in the late 70's
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.
It feels so weird coming back to this video now that Computer Reset is no longer a thing. It's like taking a tour in an old building of a long defunct software company.
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
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.
@@MrEightThreeOne I'm having the same thoughts. How did things pan out on that front?
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.
Think about how many places like that exist all over the world, never to be discovered...?
German dude broke af cant just go there? Germania was rich no?
As someone who lives in Asia. I can sympathize with you.
This Spaniard is crying too. At least Clint shared his joy and adventures with us...
Well a ton of the stuff is ending up on ebay for a inflated price.
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 has become pure legend.
This warehouse alone could cripple the ebay market and drive prices down.
speedyspeeds and others like it
I hope it does --- eBay doesn't have a corner on the retro market
Fuck the eBay market.
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
Bradley Hove same tbh
It would take you a lot more than a year
Buy a new warehouse, lots of bodies, move from point A to point B, repair, recycle.....it would take more than a year
Than the stock would run out and it closes down.
@@valrabellkeys9867 he said billionaire because no matter what your losing money!
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 can se a lot of passion in what you do in your videos. You really deserve every single subscriber here. Greetings from Brazil.
In 1996 my mum was a receptionist at a computer shop in Auckland, New Zealand. I was 11 years old and after school I would work as a technician building computers to order while she finished work. Around 1998 the company went bankrupt and mum was put in charge of auctioning off the warehouse stock. At the time it was already a 15 year old company, and they had a similar warehouse to this but much much smaller. It was piles of old new stock covered in duct. Old stock that never sold or customer PC's that were traded in. We basically had free pick at anything we wanted and eventually most of it ended up at the dump. So watching this video bought back memories of multi stoires warehouses and offices piled ot the roof exactly like this!! Amazing!! I've never writen a comment this long so please keep up the great work with these videos!! Chur from New Zealand!! :D
I wouldn't mind watching the uncut version of this. wow what a trip this was!
Agreed!!
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.
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.
Good ol' Dallas, Texas. Thanks for the tour!
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.
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.
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
@@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.
I almost ended up like this with Subaru stuff in just four years.
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!
"We're selling to collectors and *donating to verified museums*" *SIGH OF RELIEF SO HARD I STARTED COUGHING*
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. :)
@@Arcadecomponentscom awesome!
@@Arcadecomponentscom You just might go to heaven.
@@uzivatel56 Might?! He did the Lord's work by donating them. He is certainly going to heaven for it.
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.
"the guy letting people in wasn't really supposed to be doing that." -- yeah, we folks like that classify our actions as 'better to ask forgiveness than permission' 😜
Not sure that holds up in court...
@@Cheepchipsable hopefully the forgiveness comes before any god damn court proceedings then... lol
If I was there and told all that stuff was just gonna get bulldozed I'd let people in too. At least some of it could be saved.
Had you cooked something this would have been the Turducken of LGR videos. It has everything! Tech tales, thrifts, vlog, etc. Just an amazing story and great coverage overall.
unboxing as well! haha
I kinda expected for Clint to say "I just bought the whole thing"
"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!"
"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)
"This is where I live now!"
Thank you for showing me this!!! I was in complete awe the entire time.
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.
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.
Just made my day!!! :)
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.
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.
LGR looking at the state of his own house in 60 years
man, now i wish i had watched LGR a few years ago, i wouldve hopped on this in a heartbeat
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
For all of us that have had the pleasure of experiencing the awesomeness that is Computer Reset this video doesn't do it justice. It was such an overwhelming experience (in a good way). I can't believe I've lived so close my entire life and have never been until recently. I'm glad all of the proceeds are going towards Richard and his family and Justin is an awesome guy for doing what he's doing.
@@lookoutpiano8877 oh my! So sorry to say thanks to Clint for making the video and to Justin for his contribution. There's always that one that's easily offended by the smallest shit isn't there? Smh...what a b****.
This was like a crossover episode of LGR, Hoarders, and American Pickers. Love it!
You should check out curiosity Inc on KZhead. Search like potters house
Triple the views, too!
Truly amazing, it's Nerdvana! Thank you for sharing this!
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:)
Ebaying this stuff could be source of employment and income for at least 6 people for decades!
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).
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
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.
@@chaztitan6457 two *cents 🙄
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.
Everyone: "We want more thrifting!" LGR: "Hold my RAM"
"Memory is RAM." --IT Crowds' Moss from kzhead.info/sun/gciLdambnZOfm58/bejne.html
@@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!
*Chrome wants to know your location.*
warehouse:opens Clint: happy pcm noises
Hmm ...
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.
Argh I really wanna get in there and organize that whole place! It's glorious.
You really need to investigate that Sierra computer. Everyone of course have hopes for some crazy original sourcode but we know its not really realistic but still there may be something interesting and hardware itself seems really cool. You should contact MetalJesusRocks, he and his friend used to work at Sierra, don't know at what years exactly but they surely know some old players, even had a video with Al Lowe (from King's Quest and Leisure Suit Larry), so maybe they will tell you more about the machine
MetalJesusBegs will just ask LGR to pay for his trip to Dallas
@@SenatorBanana lol metal jesus begs
Found Robert Fischer on Mobygames, look like he is credited with a couple of SWAT games: www.mobygames.com/developer/robert-fischer/credits/developerId,5666/
"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.
Exactly.
Never. Never a second.
I was going to skip, but decided to listen. It was worth listening. His trip almost failed too.
Skipping any part of his videos is against the principles.
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.
Awsome finds... I would LOVE to go into that space...
You must have felt like Howard Carter discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. "I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon unable to stand in suspense any longer inquired anxiously "Can you see anything?", it was all I could do to get out the words "Yes, wonderful things". "We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects."
What if someone was trapped inside of that still running server just like in Tron Legacy.
"He unplugged it"
Oops!
I think it's actually a network switch.
@@SkylarsTerribleMemes i know we were just making a reference
You sir have a fantastic imagination.
I so badly want to organise the entire place 😭
It’s not the computer stuff, it’s the OCD
@@Slopmaster Monica?????
Man, same here! I dream of owning the whole place to myself so that I could just sit and sort it all.
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.
You would die of natural causes before you finished
Nice trip back in time. Thanks for the video.