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

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[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Guarantee the monitor was not included.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world -1 points 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 months ago

$2000 in 1997 is about $3920 today

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

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