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richlevy · 10-21-2007, 01:58 PM

It's certainly a little more extreme. I don't think I could take it as far as the typewriter keyboard. I still remember using a manual typewriter and how my fingers felt after punching out a few pages of text.

What got me was that I thought this stuff was expensive. The CPU I showed was $599 for a 2.6 GHZ. Except for the fact that it doesn't come with a keyboard, that's about what I would expect to pay for a standard 2.6Ghz CPU.

It was really tempting.

You have to consider that a lot of these old radio and hi-fi cabinets are being thrown away as junk, when most inexpensive furniture these days is pressed wood or similar. To get real wood in anything now is almost considered 'heirloom'.

The cabinets were mass produced, but the difference in materials between mass production in 1939 and today is huge.

10-21-2007, 01:58 PM	#3
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	It's certainly a little more extreme. I don't think I could take it as far as the typewriter keyboard. I still remember using a manual typewriter and how my fingers felt after punching out a few pages of text. What got me was that I thought this stuff was expensive. The CPU I showed was $599 for a 2.6 GHZ. Except for the fact that it doesn't come with a keyboard, that's about what I would expect to pay for a standard 2.6Ghz CPU. It was really tempting. You have to consider that a lot of these old radio and hi-fi cabinets are being thrown away as junk, when most inexpensive furniture these days is pressed wood or similar. To get real wood in anything now is almost considered 'heirloom'. The cabinets were mass produced, but the difference in materials between mass production in 1939 and today is huge. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama Last edited by richlevy; 10-21-2007 at 02:27 PM.