[rescue] EIO card in HP 4M

[Lionel Peterson]

Well Dave, you do run a computer museum...

If the question was "work is offering me a working LJ4+ For free (just carry
it away) should I take it", the answer is yes, every time - I think we all
agree on that.

Personally I don't own a printer less than 15 years old, but I rarely paid
more than a fraction of the value of the toner in the printer when I got it.

Ken

> On Apr 12, 2021, at 13:35, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>
> o;?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
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
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