[rescue] EIO card in HP 4M

[Mouse]

>>> The HP LJ4+ was released in 1994, 26 years ago.
>>> It's a fine printer, but at some point...
>>  ...it remains a fine printer.
> 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.

$200?  If supplies are still available, that's probably not a bad
price, for someone who wants a workhorse laser printer.  (Inkjets just
aren't suitable for some purposes.)

> A SS20 runs just as fast today as it did in 1997, but would you spend
> $200 today to buy one?

Usually, no.  But, depending on what it has in it and where it is, I
could be sorely tempted.

> (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...)

Not so much to rationalize, but - at least for me! - simply to judge
whether it's worth it to me.  Two 8M VSIMMs, otherwise fully loaded
with RAM, a couple of high-memory cg6s, maybe something else
interesting (another Magma 16Sp?), in my backyard, and I might well
decide it's worth it.  Throw in a type-3 keyboard in good shape and I'd
even call it likely.  (Can you maybe tell what I don't have as many as
I'd like of? :-)

To me.  Others will doubtless disagree, in various respects.

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