cartridges

Those consumer-level printers are engineered to be the absolute minimum-cost solution to get people to empty their ink cartridges.

Super Nintendos were popular as well at the time, but as the article suggests most of cartridges were pirated ones.

And yes, they perform as well (and in fact better, for many people) and last nearly as long as cartridges.

Could any of you imagine--never buying any extra ink cartridges in four years of college?

You mention cartridges with brings to mind famously uncompetitive coffee and printer toner parallels.

It's obviously too late now, but you can actually get piezoelectric cartridges with no coils or magnets, made for (very) low-end phonographs.

I've tried disposables, cartridges, electric and the safety razor and I'd rate safety razors better than all of them.

My ink jet printer requires $120+ dollars for color and black cartridges.

Personally I have been following the forearm method [1] of keeping my disposable five-blade cartridges sharp.

The easiest thing I know of to do with dried out ink cartridges is to use steam to open the nozzles.

Second, (as someone who has to shave every day) there's a vast and noticeable difference between safety cartridges; there are really bad ones out there.

Sony currently manufactures cartridges with up to 1.5TB of storage[2].

The media are in the form of cartridges with 12 discs in each cartridge, and Sony claims that the media is "50 year rated".

But learning about this explained why "save slots" didn't work on any game (the pirated cartridges didn't have a persistent writable memory).

A decent trimmer is cheaper than an 8-pack of the "latest-gen" cartridges.

My submission would be: I was a help desk pleb at a well known inkjet/scanner/camera company 15 years ago and this company "extended" their clipper database to record third party cartridges, but recorded them in.ini format.