LGR  Retro Computer Warehouse - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Homer J Simpson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 13, 2019, 11:33:28 pm
content: I can see Dave's place looking like this 10 years from now.

author: Mr. Scram
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 13, 2019, 11:41:13 pm
content: It'd be great if you can post a short summary of what's in the video and what caught your attention. As other people have indicated, most people don't want to spend close to an hour watching a video that may not be to their liking. That goes for any video. Great opening posts lead to great threads.

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2019, 12:11:06 am
content: The picture is basically it. Flip through it and find something that catches your fancy.The into is somewhat "human interest", his story before [being able to] get down to the point. After that, stacks and stacks of almost every computer imaginable?If you don't like boxes and vintage computers, skip.Tim

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2019, 01:55:06 pm
content: Probably one of the saddest videos I have ever seen. In their time the goods in that warehouse would have been worth a considerable sum but because the place is a disorganized mess the stuff remained unsold. There are elements of my history in there but I have no chance of making a trip and, even if I did, it would take months to work through that mess in the hope of finding something useful.

author: ebastler
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2019, 04:33:56 pm
content: Quote from: Mr. Scram on July 13, 2019, 11:41:13 pm+1. Homer, you post a lot of Youtube video links here, including some interesting finds. But just dumping the video link into a new post without any explanation is not all that helpful. It would be great if you could also provide a quick synopsis, talk about highlights and what you found prticularly interesting.

author: Homer J Simpson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2019, 04:44:44 pm
content: Skip to about 13:45 and go from there.As I have re watched this the scale of the amount of stuff that is in this place is staggering.Also, thanks for the feedback on the post. Will do going forward.

author: TK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2019, 05:08:54 pm
content: If you are a retro computer geek, then the full video provides lots of useful information, like where to find this place, etc.

author: soldar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2019, 05:18:16 pm
content: Yep, any video without an explanation of contents gets skipped by me and much more so if it is the opening of a thread.

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2019, 01:05:20 pm
content: That's frightening and tragic and awesome all at the same time.To lessen risk of developing PTSD from watching that, I'll mention that right at the end he explains that there IS a process in place for access and buying stuff. Or free, if you are a museum. He gives the contact details.So it's not a case of "look at this Aladdin's Cave of retro treasures, and you're too late, now it's all bulldozed, ha ha."Which was what I thought it was going to be, through most of that video.

author: TomS_
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2019, 12:55:58 pm
content: Quote from: Mr. Scram on July 13, 2019, 11:41:13 pmMost people watching LGR would likely already have an idea what its going to be about, especially from the thumbnailYou can also click through to the video itself and read the description...

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2019, 02:12:38 pm
content: Quote from: TerraHertz on July 15, 2019, 01:05:20 pmYep. Would have been nice for him to mention it a bit earlier in the video!There's so much there, and the current set up (of letting random people come in and dig) being so potentially damaging, that I think it'd make sense to crowdfund a couple of million bucks to buy it all and have a team of curators properly catalog, clean and package things so that they can be preserved and/or sold properly, rather than ending up with someone crushing some rare gem underfoot while searching for something else.