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Lost me at “the first consumer product we’re aware of to use nitinol”.
There were nitinol eyeglass frames back in the 1980s.
Hey, he’s like, just this guy, you know?
Lost me at “the first consumer product we’re aware of to use nitinol”.
There were nitinol eyeglass frames back in the 1980s.
I was rocking a $600 Amiga 500. :)
The Macintosh SE/30 was the year before at $4,400 ($4,900 with a hard drive).
PC prices were $1,000 to $2,000.
I was in college when this came out and, yeah, it was super cool… but nobody could afford to own one at the time.
There were two form factors, the Cube and the Pizza Box.
The Cube was $8,000 in 1990 dollars.
The Pizza Box was $5,000.
If you run that through an inflation calculator that’s the equivalent of $19,279.50 for a cube or $12,049.69 for the pizza box.
Outlook the other day insisted it was better opening links in Edge instead of my default browser… Yeah, I shut THAT down…
Did they NEED to though? Maybe the Roman roads were just that good?
I had a single speed CD rom, but it was hooked up under a weird SCSI arrangement that Slackware wouldn’t recognize.
So I swapped it out for a 2X IDE drive with a 3CD caddy! Good times!
That was my first distro… in 1993! Because I bought a book with a CD in the back that had the whole thing instead of having to download a bunch of floppies!
Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/e2PyeXRwhCE#t=33s