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My first flatbed scanner cost over $1,500 and was a genuine HOT DEAL, the absolute best price available.
My first Postscript printer was a cobbled together Canon engined laser box with a seperate HP controller and only cost about $1,000 total, which was an incredible bargain, as that same controller alone had cost $2,400 all by itself when it had first come out less than a year before.
Going back further, the Saturday kiddee matinee at the Manor theatre cost $.25, $.35 if it was a Disney movie, and we kids were lined up all the way around the building at least a half hour before. No butting-up in line!
They had, I'm not kidding or bs'ing, 8-10 adult ushers to TRY and keep a lid on the kiddee anarchy. Popcorn fights, taking your cardboard popcorn box, flattening it and sailing it at the screen, and general hooting and hollering ruled!
My first Postscript printer was a cobbled together Canon engined laser box with a seperate HP controller and only cost about $1,000 total, which was an incredible bargain, as that same controller alone had cost $2,400 all by itself when it had first come out less than a year before.
Going back further, the Saturday kiddee matinee at the Manor theatre cost $.25, $.35 if it was a Disney movie, and we kids were lined up all the way around the building at least a half hour before. No butting-up in line!
They had, I'm not kidding or bs'ing, 8-10 adult ushers to TRY and keep a lid on the kiddee anarchy. Popcorn fights, taking your cardboard popcorn box, flattening it and sailing it at the screen, and general hooting and hollering ruled!