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  • Why the new Mac mini is the perfect home & family computer

    DrBoar2DrBoar2
    Half the HD space of my mid 2011 budget and half of what I upgraded the RAM to on my own.
    The real insanity is that with the M2 I have to pay as much for adding 256 GB SSD as getting a 2 TB external HD!  That is an 8:1 ratio
    And why do I have to pay as much for adding 256 (256 to 512) as adding 512 (going from 412 to 1TB) !?



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  • 24 years after original iMac, there's still big demand for floppies

    DrBoar2DrBoar2
    At a former workplace I had in 2012 a biorector running NT4 and 3.5" floppys was the only way to get data of the computer. Upgrading to a modern windows would mean a new set of software with a hefty licence cost as well as the cost of the guy configuring the whole thing. That would cost at least ten times as much as just buying a modern computer. About that time I also bought a laser color printer that both needed to have serial interface and drivers for NT4 without the last service pack!

    At an other place we had a BioRad Scintillator to measure radioactivity, it had to be connected to a 8086 computer as the minimum baudrate on 286 was to fast, this was at the time hen the blue and white G3 came out. So there is a lot of old equipment hooked up to really old computers out there that is expensive to replace. At the same time e also had a platereader hooked up to a Mac Plus... :)
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