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My school just installed desktops with rtx 5060s in them (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

When I was in high school in the late '80s there was a rumor that the school owned an electron microscope. The school was in a fairly affluent area so it was certainly within the realm of possibility, but I certainly never saw it and didn't know anyone who had.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Affluent enough someone could spend a couple M in the 80s?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Or they're bought a used one from a nearby fab. Though the service contracts are no joke cost wise.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    The 80s were wild man.
    The company I work for now balks about $6k for the annual employee appreciation. Back in the 80s they spent $50k (in 80s $$) on a float for the small town's annual parade.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    See one of those is marketing. The other is effectively payroll. Companies will spend a ton of money on useless marketing because it has a 0.0001% chance of increased revenue... but will refuse to pay a penny more than they are required to employees because that's always an expense.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    I didn't finish public school, but where I went to college, you could graduate without ever touching a computer unless you were pursuing an IT degree and, even then, you only had to use one occasionally.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    We had 2 full classrooms with computers, a big deal back then (the swedish "Compis" computer with floppy drives and one hard drive in one of the classrooms). Our class got to use them once (1) in 3 years.

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