Exploring a MASSIVE Retro Computer Warehouse! 

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.

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.

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

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

Underrated comment 😆

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, RU-vid instead of newspaper magnate.

I wonder what his Rosebud will be.

Show him the blueprints.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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

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!

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.

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.

ya, mass grave, thats the thing

Inferior predecessor models. Mass long term storage unit.

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!

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

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

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

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.

yeah maybe not for that but it doubles for that to

@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 :)

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

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

yeah they'd only be aquiet

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....

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.

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

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!

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

Lmao

A glorious way to go!

Just throw a blanket over him and keep digging..

Like the dead guy found in a store

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*

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.

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.

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!

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.

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 RU-vid 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!

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.

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?

"Memory is RAM." --IT Crowds' Moss from ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NdREEcfaihg.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 ...

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.

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.

Was it CorelDraw for Windows 3.1 in 1995?

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.

speedyspeeds and others like it

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

Fuck the eBay market.

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!

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 has that vibe

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

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.

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.

@@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****.

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!

Sorry for a weird late reply but my thoughts were I'd be an Easter egg or something

Sounds stupid to be honest...

Hardware , that movie

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

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

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

Ok

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.

unboxing as well! haha

Agreed!!

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

Lol

Thank you!

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

Remember when people didn't post the same crap all the time for likes

@El Ess Toy i was talking about people in the comment section.

I still did lol. Headed to Vegas back in April on a whim to shoot machine guns at bf Vegas.

@@superwinfieldgold Just came back here after the new 2022 video to see how many likes I got on a comment I forgot about. /s

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.

You should check out curiosity Inc on RU-vid. Search like potters house

Triple the views, too!

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 :)