Because you have it reversed. This is new tech trying to interface with old tech. For when your Pentium 2 CD-ROM drive dies because a belt went bad. Or the laser is rotten. That kind of situation. Sourcing an IDE drive for old hardware is getting harder every day. (honestly, finding anything beige is getting harder)

I’ve always wondered about that, since in theory you can flip the removable bit on some of the USB flash media out there. Is that enough to trick the Windows installer? I don’t know.

wait wait… reading comprehension fail on my part. Both that NBC article and Wikipedia are saying that Kodak went against the grain by selling more expensive printers with cheaper ink.

Eastman Kodak Co. is introducing a line of desktop printers and low cost replacement inks on Tuesday, as the photography company takes on a market dominated by Hewlett-Packard.

That’s wild!

I had my inkjet from around 2011 to 2015. I think it was a C310 but I can’t find any proof of that. I only know it took the 30B/C cartridges.

They were $25-30 for a bundle on a retailer’s shelf while everything else was closer to $50-70 for a bundle on a retailer’s shelf. There was a 20% yield difference between the two, but that’s no 20% markup! I vaguely recall a 30B double pack that was only $15 total, and that’s what I used to buy once or twice a year. None of that hidden “Cyan mixed in the black to make it blacker” crap that HP did either.

How ironic that Kodak rigged the game to make ink expensive, and then others beat them at it.

Funny, I had a Kodak printer for years since they had the cheapest ink by a large margin. HP was always the most expensive.

What year did that flip?