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

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      2 months ago

      In 97? That’s a great deal, especially if it came with the monitor.

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        2 months ago

        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.

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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).