[rescue] EIO card in HP 4M

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Apr 12 13:35:12 CDT 2021


On 4/12/21 2:29 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Look, I agree, but to take folding money ($200!) out of your pocket to buy one
> today is not the same as marveling that the printer you saved from the scrap
> heap still works 10 years later.
> 
> A SS20 runs just as fast today as it did in 1997, but would you spend $200
> today to buy one?

   That's not a fair comparison at all.  You can still get real, modern, 
not-a-tech-geek-in-the-basement work done on an LJ4.  I understand that 
this goes against the well-trained consumer sheep "if it's old, it's 
bad, and if it's not new, it's old" mindset, but a real person can run a 
real office on an LJ4, and they're arguably a whole lot better-built 
than just about anything else on the market until you get up into the 
$1K+ range.

   I know, IHBT.

>   (I know, dangerous question to ask here, we'd ask "how clean is is it? Ram?
> CPUs? Framebuffer? Storage?" In an effort to rationalize the purchase...)

   I've no need for such nonsense.  "Because I fucking want it" is good 
enough for me.

   But I sit in front of an i9 now.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


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