Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on

Working in tech can produce a catalog of woes, and each Monday The Register shares yours in "Who, Me?" – our reader-contributed column chronicling tech-related mistakes, heartaches, and back-breaks. This week, meet an Italian reader we'll Regomize as "Marco," who took us back to what he called "The Roaring Nineties, when big computer companies sold pretty much everything, from graphics workstations to enterprise laser printers." They sold it all through hefty paper catalogs, because this was before broadband and Marco's company had only a 19k baud dial-up connection. Marco's boss, whom he described as a "sciagurato" – Italian for a wretch – kept one of those catalogs on his desk. "He perused it every day, like a kid waiting for...

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