Why is Tom stealing a printer? Needed one for the Delta Flyer?

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        My last custom build from 3 years ago was a little over $3k. For that mass produced box at $2k from over 24ish years prior seems a bit stiff by comparison.

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          Moores law has been a kind bastard for a long time.

          200mhz in 97, with 2GB of hard drive space? Bet it had a 56.6kb modem too. That was all premium components at that time, the ryzen 9, 4TB nvme 5 and wifi 7e/2.5gb ethernet of its day.

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        In those days you could build it yourself for half the price of a name brand.

        Edit: for the downvoters.

        Did you ever go to a computer show and sale at a fairgrounds or expo center? Or buy/subscribe to Computer Shopper magazine (the one that looked like a telephone book).

        The PC market was completely different in the 90’s.

    • @brbposting
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      Well, that is eight times more CD-ROM speed than most any computer sold today.

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        Infinite more speed than the empty drive bays I’m using for CDs and DVDs.

        Though I’ve been considering getting an external drive. Mainly to check if my old CD and DVD backups/data dumps are just junk now or are still readable (to probably rip the iso and then burn a new copy that will likely sit unused for another decade or two).

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      eMachines fucking ate this market, one or two years later. My first PC was a 566i2 for like $500.

      Ironically it could not run Doom, because it was cursed with Windows ME.

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    By Grabthar’s Hammer, what a camcorder.

  • hopesdead
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    This is the most ‘90s image ever. They look like the cast of a sitcom. Secondly, I finally know what the device Picardo is holding is.

    Of course the hidden detail of the computer monitor showing a screenshot from TOS is lovely.

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        Why is Tom stealing a printer?

        This, however, is not Canon. It’s an HP.

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          It’s from the time HP printers needed only a semiannual cleaning, would last a decade, and the cartridges were cheap.

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            Yep. That’s what “killed” it for me. The cartridges that were like $25 when I first acquired it were like $65 by the time I got rid of it. Part of that could be due to it being an older model, but definitely shouldn’t be a $40 difference in 6 years.

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          I think I got that printer for a family member for Christmas. And yes, before you ask, the 3d maze was the screensaver

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            I had it, too (or at least one in the same DeskJet 6xx family). Got it from a dumpster dive in high school, threw in some new ink cartridges, and was good to go. That thing lasted me all the way through college.

            HP has fallen so far from grace it’s crazy.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      It is. I admit I didn’t find it, someone found it and I passed it on.

  • @[email protected]
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    They’ve all got that 80s-90s leanness. Before we plumped up on high fructose corn syrup.