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Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs

From Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs
Date 2025-01-16 14:40 -0600
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On 1/16/25 5:42 AM, -hh wrote:
> On 1/16/25 1:41 AM, Physfitfreak wrote:
>> On 1/15/25 7:34 PM, Paul wrote:
>>> The enthusiast sites have more info, if you need it.
>>>
>>> https://www.tomshardware.com/best-picks/best-pc-builds-gaming
>>
>>
>> $500 computer is a "budget" computer these days? Hehe :)
> 
> Sure is.
> 
> In 1981, IBM's original PC 5150 debuted at $2,880 for a 64K system with 
> one floppy drive.  In today's dollars, that would be a shade over $10K.
> 
> Back in that era, PC Magazine's editor Bill Machrone quipped:
> "the computer you want always costs $5,000."
> 
> And 1984's price buster of the TI-99/4A started at $525.  What 
> percentage of your gross monthly pay was $525 back in 1984?
> Don't know about you, but for me, it would've been around 33%.
> 
> 
> -hh


$525 was about half of what I made in 1984. Back then I was getting $700 
and something per month for TA/RA work in school. I also made money by 
tutoring ($75 per sitting no matter how long the sitting lasted - rarely 
over 4 hours). I had at least one tutoring session per week, so that was 
another $300 a month. So about $1000 per month, and I lived comfortably 
(money-wise that is - in reality I was conducting a tough as well as 
quite challenging life in graduate school).

But you (and I so far in this post) are digressing from the point I made.

I didn't pay "$525" for a computer in 1984. I had a VAX/VMX minicomputer 
in the physics department always available for me. And before that, when 
IBM sold its "$2880" computers, I had a PDP-11 in the physics department 
at my disposal 24 x 7. A few years later they were asking us "Who wants 
this PDP-11?" Student or secretary or prof didn't matter. Nobody in 
physics department wanted it. A prof in the chemistry dept took it to 
his office.

So how much _did_ I pay for a computer.

I pulled out three Commodore 64 computers together with their power 
supplies (just two) and one disk drive, all packed inside a box, from 
the garbage dumpster of my apt complex I believe in 1986, or was it 
1985. Somebody must've moved and had a "better" computer. Two of them 
worked perfectly. I wrote programs on them that I'm still using today! 
For one, a calendar conversion program I wrote handled conversions 
between Iranian lunar, Iranian solar, the Gregorian and before that the 
Julian solar dates nicely. Maximum error just one day! And you could go 
back in time even to the days of Darius if you insisted, cause I also 
took into account the precession of the Earth's rotational axis. I know 
of no calendar inversion software (accessible to public) that does that. 
They'll get even the season wrong if you go back that far, let alone the 
day.

I wrote it first in BASIC (SIMONS BASIC cartridge - $5), then after 
finding some German C compiler for Commodore in the consignment store 
($10), I wrote that same calendar Program in C on the Commodore. In 
early 1990s I didn't have access to university computers anymore, and 
when I had my first XT ($30 from consignment store) I adjusted that C 
calendar program to Borland's C ($20 with all the 11 or so yellow-red 
books that accompanied the software - same consignment store). So I 
created an EXE file for the calendar that ran on a DOS computer, which 
last time just yesterday I used to convert calendars when reading a 
history book. It runs fine in DOSBox emulator on linux.

I sometimes use other programs too, today, that I originally wrote on 
that same Commodore. A two and three dimensional graphing/plotting 
software that went through same modifications as the calendar program. 
And as lately as the lock down Covid months, I was converting them to 
C++ intending to make them fully object oriented. But my laptop (another 
near-salvage I don't even remember from where - I think the Chinese 
company I worked for were getting rid of them or something) stopped 
getting charged and I had to leave that project inside that laptop.

On my XT, early in 1990s, I developed serious scientific programs to 
compute various slow changing processes throughout hundreds of thousands 
of years. That's how I found out Whites are Cro-magnons! How long it 
takes for skin to become transparent by lack of enough sunlight. That 
Neanderthals were transparent skinned people. How long the matriarchy 
period lasted. etc.

Do you get the picture?

I don't need a $5000 computer for any reason under the sky, not even a 
$500 computer. Those who need them must want to do a Jupiter flyby :)

Right now I'm using a computer that I bought last week for $12 in a 
_thrift_store.

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            Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-15 13:51 +0100
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        Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 10:46 -0500
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            Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-15 17:02 +0000
              Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-16 05:40 +0000
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-16 06:27 -0500
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-27 22:49 +0000
            Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 14:32 -0500
              Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-15 15:52 -0500
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-15 20:34 -0500
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-16 00:41 -0600
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-16 06:42 -0500
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-16 14:40 -0600
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-16 16:34 -0500
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-16 16:56 -0600
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-16 22:40 -0500
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-17 02:04 -0600
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-17 07:34 -0600
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs roger <rduffy@hotmail.com.invalid - 2025-01-17 14:01 -0600
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-17 15:57 -0500
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-17 16:50 -0600
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-17 21:52 -0500
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-16 21:38 +0000
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-16 15:44 -0600
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-16 15:51 -0600
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-16 16:11 -0600
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-01-17 13:03 +0000
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-17 16:00 -0600
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-17 23:15 +0000
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-17 18:10 -0600
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-17 18:13 -0600
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-16 06:22 -0500
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-16 12:10 -0500
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-16 12:28 -0600
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-17 00:27 +0000
                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-16 23:47 -0500
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                Re: Microsoft to force new Outlook on Windows 10 PCs Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-01-16 18:45 +0000
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