Exploring a MASSIVE Retro Computer Warehouse!
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- 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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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.
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.
@@jiddro33 some jackass is already selling PCjr keyboards (something that is so common in this place that they are a nuisance) from this warehouse for 89$ on eBay when he paid probably no more than 10$ each. On day one, some kid and his dad showed up in a van and got all the model Ms on the surface - they were banned. It isn't just that they are taking advantage of the situation, but they have a huge advantage over less profit driven individuals.
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.
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
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
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
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
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, RUclips instead of newspaper magnate.
I wonder what his Rosebud will be.
Show him the blueprints.
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.
Man LGR pulled a grandpa joe when he heard it was closing down lmao
Underrated comment 😆
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
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.
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
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.
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
camera footage = A+
narration = A+
entertainment value = 10/10
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.
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!
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 :)
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 RUclips 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!
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!
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 👍
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!
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.
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!
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.
I wouldn't mind watching the uncut version of this. wow what a trip this was!
Agreed!!
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
@@trueKENTUCKY 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.
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!
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?
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.
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.."
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
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.
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....
This feels like the treasure room in GAUNTLET where there is both excitement and panic at getting everything before times runs out.
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.
Clint! I am absolutely LOVING these “storytelling” style videos. Wonderful format. 🙏
Thank you!
This was like a crossover episode of LGR, Hoarders, and American Pickers. Love it!
You should check out curiosity Inc on RUclips. Search like potters house
Triple the views, too!
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.
DEAR
GOD!
That is just...........
Words can't describe, I wish I could afford just to go see it let alone dig through and get something home
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?
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.
The actually decided against tearing it down. This is the most awesome thing I have ever seen before
(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*
Man, this was 2 years ago? I still remember the story about trying to get into Computer Reset like it was yesterday.
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!
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...
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
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
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!
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
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.
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.
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/
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.
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
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
buy the lot with other youtubers, and make a series cleaning it out and create a new museum!
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!
Clints true dream, I'm surprised the video didn't end with him telling us that he bought the place and is moving in.
Awww man I was expecting that, too!
Shut up and take my money!
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.
me too, I was thinking it would be a perfect place to start LGR Museum!
@@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 :)
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
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.
It burns my soul to see classic cars rot away
It burns my soul to see anything useful rot away
tosdude That's a whole lotta burnin'
When Clint first showed up in the comments of Regular Car Reviews I lost my shit
This was amazing. My heart sank at the beginning when I thought all was to be landfill but soon improved with the opportunities for genuine enthusiasts to save the treasures. I know if John Titor was in town he’d be a very happy traveller indeed lol.
@K People probably know him from an awful show called Steins; Gate who transformed him into a little girl.
My life outside of the internet is just craziness everywhere, but the calmness of these videos help me relax a lot of the time, even when I know next to nothing about old computers before windows xp. Old tech videos like these are really interesting to me, and when I'm tinkering around with my new gaming pc, I usually have an LGR or 8-bit guy video playing
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
god damn, the beginning of this video reminded me of when I went to a movie theater right after it closed down to salvage whatever I could before it got sold. it was a sister theater of the theater I worked at and it just had such a weird feeling to it. half excited to see all the stuff I could take and use at our theater, and half depressed seeing all the notes and places and things people left behind that will never be used again. not to mention I've been there a number of times to help out when they needed it.
the theater closed extremely suddenly, they basically went until they ran out of money and closed the doors the day they did and left everything exactly they way it would be if it were to open the next day. it was such a weird feeling going through that place and I can't describe it for the life of me, but the beginning of this video gave me that same feeling. it obviously wasn't filled to the brim with old theater tech, but there was definitely enough and just going through the different rooms was such an experience I wont ever forget.
It's nice to see another person who's as organized as myself.
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.
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!
I've lived in Garland my whole life. The vintage computers in the area are insane. Nearby the city of Richardson has housed IBM headquarters as well as EDS, TI, and Compaq. Their E-Waste ends up in ex-employees storage facilities and resale shops. It's actually the ideal location for the kinds of nerds we are.
I bid a construction job once for remodeling an EDS data center. Technically was Plano I think, but may have been Garland. That place was huge. The air handlers for the HVAC system were actually rooms the size of a gymnasium.
This is the nerdiest adventure I've ever seen.
I love it
This is the best computer related video of 2019. Hands down. This is just bananas.
Agreed. I was in awe the whole time I watched. As a retro computist myself, I wish I could've been there.
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.
I'm sure Jason Scott from archive.org would like to see some of those floppies.
@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.
oh thank god.
@@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.
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.
Don't copy that floppy.
Everyone: "We want more thrifting!"
LGR: "Hold my RAM"
"Memory is RAM." --IT Crowds' Moss from ruclips.net/video/NdREEcfaihg/видео.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 ...
That sped up LGR thrifts section had me in absolute stitches. There's a reason people still tune in after all these years. You're an absolute legend. :)
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.
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!"
So can all you big retro RUclips guys get together and secure the collection somewhere else? This is an entire lifetime+ of content.
How can something be so comfy, nostalgic and so depressing and melancholic at the same time.
Great stuff as always, Clint.
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.
In the late 80’s & all thru the 90’s I lived there and that building was as where we went for memory upgrades and software... back then it was very professional, clean and busy all the time - they seemed to have a channel to get reject high-end memory (chips that were huge, but slower than premium due to manu-defects - a great buy for doing memory-hog programs that did have to run faster - ultimately that was still faster due to not paging out/in)
There's component recovery vendors who sell factory seconds as a business. They probably got them from Spectek, which is actually owned by Micron and sells all sorts of their "recovered" die.
Holly crap! Probably a combined 128GB ram memory in this building
Lol
Do yourself a favor, do NOT skip ahead! Watch the whole video.
I have 0 interest in computers but i watched the entire video. Clint is such a charming fellow
Ok
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?
LGR looking at the state of his own house in 60 years
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
"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.
Wow... I live in the Dallas area and work just 10min from there and I never knew it even existed.
Is it too late?
We just saw documented footage of the place and I'm still not convinced it exists. Clint had to pull a 15 foot tall tree out of the way to see the dang sign.
Same I live here in Dallas all my life and only now only heard of this place, WTF!?😲 I must have to go there to look and get stuff!😃
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!
"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.
This reminds me of the section in portal 2 when you go old Aperture
This place brings tears to my eyes because I too once worked from 2004-2010 in a place similar to that but only 3000 SQ/FT total they shutdown in 2012 and I haven't been able to contact my old boss(the owner). It was not quite that bad in terms of disarray but equal in terms of density of items stored. It was all PC stuff(mostly desktops) from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Pretty much everything imaginable. It was there that I learned and experienced so much of what I know now.
I have some pictures I took in a hurry about a week before I left the job there. Without them its impossible to accurately depict what things were like but now I have this video which, while much more disorganized, still gives a glimpse into what it was like in those old computer shops that took and worked on pretty much everything PC wise.
How do you know that??
Videos like this honestly blow my mind. I mean I've been to places where there have been some shelves of things, but never shelves upon pallets upon piles of things like this. I mean there has got to be so much there that I truely don't think people just don''t actually understand how much stuff is there.
a good amount of this stuff has been sitting in a pile longer than i've been alive
Not gonna lie.. My eyes kinda went wide when you showed that big Sun system just.. sitting there.. under that pile of stuff..
Yeah, that was a freakout moment for me too. I hope that it finds a good home eventually.
that was one of the most intriguing things to me as well
Same
They looked like D1000 storages
I don't think i'll ever be able to squint again.
Computer Reset: "What computer parts do you want or need?"
Clint: Yes
More like
Clint: "What computer parts do you have?"
Computer Reset: "Yes."
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 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.
Summer holiday: starts
LGR: 47 minute episode
Me: tears of joy
So. This is what being _truly_ _jealous_ feels like... Thanks LGR!
*envious ;)
This place basically fills the entire market volume for old computer stuff.
It's so unorganized it's really no wonder why they wanted to bulldoze it.
Looks like a horde honestly. Too bad too.
The line between "horde" and "legitimately saving for posterity" is incredibly blurry. I mean, to throw out NOS items especially that have legitimate value in a very small but certainly real niche market would just be irresponsible(I mean, even if just for environmental reasons; but that would just be dismissive...).
When you consider it from an honest, maybe even empathic perspective - don't think that's quite the word I'm looking for; we all have interests that we would probably be a bit irresponsible over if we could actually afford to be(I would totally have a yard full of race cars and house full of partially assembled engines IF...) - it's just so difficult to discern where "hobby/interest" ends and "problem" begins.
Then again, if you aren't sacrificing food, health, and shelter(in other words, your life isn't being sacrificed for your hobby) to pay the rent & costs of your hobby, then why should anyone else give a damn?
One thing is for sure - this guy lived up his interest/hobby in a way that the vast majority of us never will!, regardless of what anyone actually thinks about it!
The problem is the kids don't have the appreciation of the stuff they have. its always been something in the way for them. Unfortunately this turned into a hoard to them only because they didnt have the ability to see the value of what they had to others, the other problem is no offense to you guys, but they are not seeing the value because they arn't getting the value, and because they have so much, even selling it on ebay will depress the price. and well that property is a loss on any taxes they pay to keep it existing.
@@RowanHawkins 18 year old here: this warehouse is a wonderland, old tech is so much more understandable on a hardware level and it's usually more reliable because they weren't mass produced with components that cost practically pennies.
They're a valuable part of history, that being said,
The tech itself is indeed important, but the building itself is a bit less so. Now, if someone were to collect everything inside and organize it and *then* put it back, that could be turned into a proper museum
+James Walling, It does seem like the owner might have had a hoarding disorder. While it's really cool so much old, obscure tech is in that warehouse, in reality this stuff has been gathered over the years, and any other store owner would have chucked the unsold gear once it all became obsolete. I think the owner probably couldn't get himself to throw stuff out, no matter how obsolete and at the time unsellable, and that's what lead to this.
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