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  Found this album at a swap meet a few months ago and couldn't pass it up. Finally got my turntable fixed and gave it a listen, and hot damn is it a lot less boring that you'd expect from the Xerox name. If this is the kind of fire that was pumping out of the Xerox de Colombia office sound system while they were messing with Xerox Altos (and copiers, I guess) in 1976, sign me the fuck up. #Xerox #Colombia #Vinyl

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  @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space The wording of the ad is a little weird, but I'm pretty sure the small one comes with the pages already, but the big one comes without. They have a listing for the big pages elsewhere on the page.

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  @helpsterTee@social.helpsterte.eu If I'm reading it right, the small one comes with the pages, whereas you have to buy the frames for the big one separately. What's funny is that *after* you add all the pages to the big one, the total price comes to $253.70, a whopping 75¢ more than the small one.

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  DUDE. Floppy. Disk. Rolodex. #RetroComputing

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  @thomasfuchs @gloriouscow For the 50th anniversary of IBM Japan, they did almost exactly that! From Wikipedia: "IBM Japan expected to sell 200,000 units of [PCjr-derived] JX, but only 40,000 units were produced. The JX was discontinued in 1987, and IBM Japan gave 15,000 units of JX to its employees in honor of the company's 50th anniversary." Ouch.

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  In 1982, you could hop down to your nearest Ikea and pick up a whole-ass loom for 2075 kr. (About $750 in 2025 US dollars), or a wee tabletop version for 395 kr. I have a feeling the difficulty of home assembly might've contributed to it being missing from the catalogue from 1983 on... #Ikea #Weaving #Loom

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  @bms48 @jwz Those who design text fields that prevent this action should also go to the special hell.