a recurring one as a retro computer collector.

Perhaps it's one that you've had, too,

if you're into this hobby.

Where, in your dream, you're just going around

looking for cool things in the area.

Maybe looking at thrift stores or what have you.

And you come across a forgotten corner,

or perhaps even a whole building full

of amazing rare old hardware.

Computers and software and games

and all sorts of things ready to be taken home

and be done with as you please for a good price.

And then you wake up.

And you're inevitably disappointed that it's not real.

Well, what if I told you that that place exists.

I've been there.

Let's get right to it.

I am so excited to show this place off on LGR.

This is the one and only Computer Reset!

[cassette tape clunking]

[laid-back jazz music plays]

[tape loudly stops]

And before be go too much further here,

I do want to provide a bit of context.

A little bit of backstory of how I discovered this place.

How I got in, how I got there.

There's a whole lot of things to go into here

before we actually get to the warehouse.

So if you do want to skip just

to the showing off of the place itself,

you can go to this time code right here in the video.

But I do encourage you to listen

to what I'm about to say because I'm about to say it.

And I think it's interesting.

It really all started last year.

And at this point last year, it was 2018.

So it was around September or something

and I got an email...

That was the mic.

It was going so well, too.

So yeah, I got an email from David Murray,

also known as The 8-bit Guy here on YouTube.

And he just sent me an email

letting me know about this place

over in Dallas, Texas called Computer Reset.

And he attached some pictures

and gave a brief description of it being

packed to the brim full of old computers

and tech and stuff.

And I'm like, yeah, cool.

Thanks for letting me know.

It's always nice to hear from David.

And cool to hear about places like this that exist.

And then a few months passed though.

I wasn't gonna go right then because I had stuff going on.

And once I posted my video on the IBM PC 5140 Convertible,

another person got in contact with me

that was also a YouTuber.

His name was Stephen.

And he does the channel Texas Nerd House on YouTube.

And he got in touch and said,

Hey, there's this place called Computer Reset.

Don't know if you've heard of it,

but they have a lot of stuff for your PC Convertible

that you just got and unboxed on your channel.

I'm like, Oh, cool.

Well, is there anything individually

that you're looking for?

Maybe something that's hard to find.

I'm like, pssh, okay.

There's a whole bunch of things for this

that I've never once seen show up for sale.

He emails me back like a day later

this photo and saying,

"Here you go."

It's just all there and they had way more

of this stuff, too at Computer Reset.

I'm like, hooo-okay.

This place is more legit than I thought.

But, at the time, I still couldn't make my way out there.

So I just said, Thank you.

Would you be willing to get that stuff

and send it my way?

I'll pay for it, and I'll pay for shipping, too.

So we did.

And it ended up being like a hundred bucks all together.

It was nothing considering the rarity of the stuff

and the value of it, if it were to go for sale.

So already I was really impressed.

But I was happy just to have some stuff for the Convertible

because I plan on doing that video at some point

and I'll get to show all these cool things.

Well, another month or something passes,

and then I hear from Rob who runs the channel

Obsolete Geek on YouTube.

So, yeah, another Texas YouTuber getting in touch

about Computer Reset.

He was like, "Have you heard of it?

"Here are some pictures."

And I'm like, Yes, I have heard of it from David

and Texas Nerd House and all these other people.

In fact, a few viewers from the Dallas area

got in touch to tell me about it, too.

But Rob mentioned the owner was in really bad shape,

and the place was deteriorating rapidly.

And maybe the place might be shutting down soon.

So perhaps you should think about going there.

I'm like, oh, yeah.

Wow, I would, except at the moment

I was injured myself

and had an ankle injury where I couldn't walk.

I hadn't been able to stand at all really, normally

for about a week.

And then a bit more time passed,

and then Stephen from Texas Nerd House got in touch again

and said, "Dude, the place is not only closing down soon,

"but it's closing this Saturday."

And this was Wednesday morning

when I got this email from him.

And I'm like, Oh, no.

Well, I don't know what to do

because I'm still kind of injured here.

I had recovered a bit more, but then he's just like

it sounds like they're not only going

to close the place down but it's gonna be bulldozed.

All the stuff inside of it, too.

All the rare computers and anything

that may happen to be in there just sold for scrap.

Aw, man.

I looked down at my ankle.

I look at the calendar.

I think about it.

I go get some coffee and wait around in the afternoon.

And by around 6:00 PM, I'm like,

You know what, screw it.

Let's see what kind of flights there are.

So I go online, look at the flights from here to Dallas.

And there's one available.

There's a couple of seats left.

So I'm like, Oh, okay.

So I get the ticket, pack a very quick bag.

And then haul it over to the airport.

And at this point, it was 6:45 when I had gotten the ticket

and I think it was in the air by 7:45.

So I just completely hauled it over to Dallas

when I heard that this place

is gonna be bulldozed in three days.

Three days?

Like, what in the world?

I knew this was once in a lifetime,

potentially, opportunity to see a kind of place like this.

One that I had only seen in my dreams.

And a few photos through email.

Sure, I was injured, but I just got an ankle brace

and said, Screw it.

Let's make this happen.

And so, yeah, I made it happen.

And I got to Dallas.

And by the time I got there, well, it was night time.

So I just grabbed a hotel.

I got into my room.

Saw that it was an okay room.

And yeah, that's fine, whatever.

Time to plop into bed.

Grab some sleep.

And just see if I can get over there in the morning.

[breakfast]

Hi.

So here is he nature of this situation this morning.

Unpredictable!

It doesn't exactly have hours.

Yeah, it is just a guy.

Apparently he kind of lives there.

He just kind of opens the door

whenever he wakes up or something.

So that's interesting.

I'm also absolutely not sure

what I'm gonna do about getting any stuff home.

I mean, a U-Haul, that's an option.

It's not a cheap one.

There's also shipping stuff out.

We'll see what happens next.

Probably just grab an Uber and head on over there.

And that is precisely what I did.

Thankfully a pretty quick trip over from my hotel.

And turns out Computer Reset's actually

a little bit closer to Garland, Texas than Dallas.

It's northeast of the main city center by a good ways.

Well, yeah, a short trek for me.

And here was my first glance of Computer Reset.

An unassuming building in an unassuming part of town.

With a delightfully retro hand-made looking sign.

And another hand-made sign saying "closed."

But yeah, just looking in through the windows here,

you can get just a glimpse of the retro awesomeness

that awaits inside.

Computers and monitors and tech just stacked everywhere.

But it's closed, and

there was no one here to let anyone in.

Not only that, but I soon received word

that no one would be let in, maybe ever again.

So close but still so far!

So yeah, in retrospect,

here's where things got a little silly.

[cork]

Now I went down there under the guise

of there being someone there to let people in.

And well, apparently, there was at one point.

But somewhere in the process, things got a bit misconstrued.

Well, all these people were emailing me about this place,

the internet was starting to catch on that it existed.

And there were a few reasons for that.

I mean, really, you just can't keep a secret

about this kind of computer warehouse

a secret for very long.

And, especially when people start posting pictures

and videos and stuff.

And in particular there was one video,

really a livestream that went up by YouTuber TX Dj.

His name is Justin,

he's a cool guy, he's got a cool channel

with a bunch of cool tech.

And apparently he had some cool permission

to film there and post it online.

And then, well you could kind of guess what happened.

People started showing up to the place at random.

And the video was spreading.

Then it was on Facebook and Reddit and Twitter

and all sorts of places.

And the family of Richard, the guy that ran

Computer Reset for so many years

and was in such bad health now,

they saw all this.

And then they saw all these people

just like showing up out front there.

And they're just like, "no."

Especially since the guy that was there letting everyone in

kind of maybe wasn't supposed to be doing that.

Things just got really weird.

And I had no idea any of this was going on when I got there.

And then when I did get there that first morning,

there were a bunch of people already waiting outside.

Some were LGR fans,

some were just people that wanted to get in

and see the cool place.

And when word starts spreading like this,

you can't really shut it down.

But they shut it down.

At this point, what am I gonna do?

I'm already there in Dallas, Texas,

so I just start hanging out with folks.

I mean, Stephen was there.

He had his vehicle,