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

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[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Those specs are adorable.

And the price absurd.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Guarantee the monitor was not included.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world -1 points 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.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

$2000 in 1997 is about $3920 today

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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).

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago
[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

That mfer would have run doom like a mofo

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Has anyone tried calling the number and asking for the p200v?

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The chip that runs the smart outlet my coffee maker plugs into has better specs than that lol

And yes, it can run DOOM

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