• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    That machine costs well over $381k. We had a much smaller 3 axis lathe installed in the machine shop I worked in during my early 20’s and it was $3M. That was 25 years ago, so it probably costs infinity dollars now, given recent inflation. Hell, you probably can’t even buy them now, just lease them on a subscription for eleventy bajillion dollars per year.

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      8 months ago

      Or, maybe you can still buy it. It still runs! Maybe it only costs $100,000 now!

      …but there’s very specific high-impact parts that are no longer made and the since-abandoned software only works on Win95 with a proper license and some kind of bizarrely proprietary serial port connection…