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Is this what /vr/ heaven looks like?

>> No.5732076

Just think, one errant spark in that warehouse....

>> No.5732086

>>5732076
What kind of fumes would be in the air??

>> No.5732123

>>5732070
I went there. It was neat, but I'm not the biggest into computer hardware so it wasn't quite the next-level experience that I'm sure it would be for hardcore compute folks. I'd like to go back at some point and see if I can find anything else intriguing that hasn't been snatched up.

Somebody found a Nintendo arcade PCB (I'm not sure of the game) of all things.

>> No.5732124

>>5732070
someone post the tiddy milf with the gameboy and cake

>> No.5732126

>>5732070

Watching the video LGR put up now. Some of that stuff would be kind of cool to have in my collection. The random Amiga monitors I see in the video kind of annoy me to no end. I really do wish someone could have just bought it all for $10,000 or so and parted it out.

>> No.5732153
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>> No.5732178

>>5732070
Waht a horrid mess. It looks more like a computer junkyard

Someday someone is going to get buried under a large pile of boxes

>> No.5732180

>>5732178
hopefully not a youtuber

>> No.5732558

Imagine how many rodents are hiding in there.

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>>5732070
It sure be funny if somebody combined all those computers together to make one really big computer.

>> No.5732616

>>5732070
Looks closer to a fire hazard.

>> No.5732768

>>5732616
The place is messy and hard to navigate, no doubt. There was some sort of mold or mildew issue upstairs. But still, if you're into old computers, there was tons and tons and tons of stuff.

>> No.5732779

>>5732070
I just see trash. Old is one thing, warehouse is one thing, but does it have to look like a literal dump? Who knows how many roach colonies are living inside those.

>> No.5733116

>>5732070
Op or anyone, what is this!?

>> No.5733127

>>5732178
>It looks more like a computer junkyard

Well, yeah. That's pretty much what it is.

>>5732779
Having helped clean up places like this before, it's looking for a diamond in the rough. And it's all about the digging.

>>5733116
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvM82T3C2Ik&t=0s

>> No.5733137

someone should definitely organize that stuff, sure it looks cool as a large mess but as others have stated, that's definitely a fire hazard everything stacked on each other like that

>> No.5733183

>I love retro tech so much xD
>*chucks it into a corner pile*

>> No.5733208

>>5733127
holy shit. thanks for the share. I'm only 8 minutes into the video. Was it actually demolished? I cant imagine why. Maybe cleared out then the space up for office space or something...where would all the stuff go~?
guess i have to keep watching. this is so cool.

>> No.5733210

>>5732124
I too would like to see this

>> No.5733271

>>5732070
No. That's what a room full of garbage rejected by the 3rd world because even they know it's worthless looks like.

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>>5733210
>>5732124
I literally had a dream like this when I was 10, without the chocolate cake part. I wanted a game boy so badly.

>> No.5733816

so why is it treated like some black market arms warehouse or some shit?

>> No.5734136

>>5732070
I really hate the rampant materialism our culture has cultivated. All that junk would be better off never existing. It's just one day going to sit in a landfill for centuries and pollute the earth.

>> No.5734273

>>5733208
No, it is still there.
>>5733816
Basically it was a computer shop owned and operated by a guy for many years. He accumulated a ton of stuff to the point that it was probably nearly impossible to properly organize and store in an orderly fashion. Their is some vague sense of organization going on, but mostly you have to dig through piles to find anything.

>> No.5734325

>>5734273
That guy must be an independently wealthy hoarder or something. A warehouse/storefront that size in Dallas would be worth millions of dollars and it's just rotting with old computer parts for millennials to sift through.

>> No.5734598

>>5734325
I have no clue about building expenses, but my impression is that this all isn't stuff he just recently accumulated, but stuff that has been amassed over decades of operation - as in, a decent chunk of it was probably obtained very cheaply, not at fad collector ebay prices.

>> No.5734601

>>5732070
That literally looks like hell to me.

>> No.5734671

I would go there once to look at it for myself and then on a weekly basis to grab a few boxes of hardware to put on ebay, but he said for private visitors, you gotta pay for what you take.

>> No.5734678

Heaven? A fucking dumping ground like that?

Climate is most likely not well controlled in there - I see one small, rusting AC unit for the entire place.

Unless this in a fucking desert those electronics most likely have thin layers of condensation on them every morning.

Most of that shit is probably glitchy or just outright dead already.

>> No.5734716

>>5733183
It was a guy who owned this store and hoarded shit there since the 80s as part of his failing business, not a retro tech collector.

>> No.5734728

>>5732076
The majority of everything in there is made of flame retardant plastic. One spark wouldn't do shit.

>> No.5734731

>>5732768
Where is this place?

>> No.5734741

>>5734731
Dallas

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>>5734728
Yeah, all that packaging of these boxes standing right next to each other wouldn't burn down the entire building at all.

>> No.5734807

>>5734752
A spark wouldn't do shit for that either.

>> No.5734825

>>5734807
>spark reaches boxes with tons of dust
>dust explosion
>everything catches fire

If it wasn't already closed down, any inspectors would shut it down just looking at it for a second, it's way too dangerous for several reasons.

>> No.5734831

I once worked at a used game store in Nebraska that was part of a small chain. They had a warehouse like this that they'd spend the last couple decades occasionally sending shit to for one reason or another, where it would disappear and be forgotten forever. I got to help spend a month clearing it out when they decided to finally shut it down. There was all sorts of crazy shit in there, like a box that had something like 30 CIB copies of Aladdin for Genesis.

>> No.5735015

>>5734273
>He accumulated a ton of stuff to the point that it was probably nearly impossible to properly organize and store in an orderly fashion.
I'm sure there would be an army of youtubers willing to do it for free.

>> No.5735114

>>5734598
99% of that stuff is worth less than when it was brand new and relevant.

While the youtube man is NERDing out, I'm just trying to think how it got that bad. It's extremely abnormal for a business to hoard old stock like that. You either sell it at clearance or throw the shit out.

>> No.5735119

Less cool, more depressing hoarder mess. Still, Clint is still wrong about that Dallas Computer Works. I got so much good shit from that one and the Austin one when I lived in Texas

>> No.5735153

>>5734678
Dallas isn't exactly as dry as southwest Texas but it isn't San Antonio/Houston/Galveston humid either

Still glad I never heard of this place while I lived there. I absolutely would go picking through for some select things if given the chance and then my wife would divorce the fuck out of me

>> No.5735169

>>5732070
This is more relative to /g/

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>>5732070
>WOAH THIS IS A LITERAL TREASURE ROOM
>youtuber that did the video brought home only a 30mb HDD, some hercules cards and games from a warehouse filled to the brim with "treasure"
The treasure was the consumerism they had formed all along.

>> No.5735182

>>5735176
you think he would actually say what was there that was really valuable?

>> No.5735602

>>5732598
computer hive mind

>> No.5735606

>>5733538
Jokes on her, he's gay

>> No.5735609

>>5732070
Just looks like a shit load of junk to me.

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>>5732070
Story time.

I actually ordered parts from here over a year ago for my PCjr. I ordered some cables and software. It took forever to get the order through on the cables and he never found the software.
After watching the LGR vid I can see why now. I tried to call the place up again for another order earlier this year and never got through. I figured the place went under. I never knew there was this much stock there.

>> No.5736424

I wonder how many voodoo 5 6000s they had lying around