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Kilmatead, whether or not the IBM-PC was expensive is dependent on ones circumstance.  As a kid of 15, that might be an accurate statement.  But being a bit senior to you (in age at least), I was involved in business settings where the PC was the THE micro-computer of choice.  There was an old sayin...

Some files say "there are no previous versions available" while others have a list of previous versions.  In particular my email (.PST) files have a list.

I do daily backups using a 3rd party backup program (Macrium Reflect) and daily system restore points.

as I remember it, the PDP-11 was limited by being 16 bit It was not a limitation for the applications that I was developing.  32 bits made the VAX way more expensive. The company I was working for had too much legacy code to consider switching - besides we were using the LSI-11 embedded in our own ...

The VAX was bigger and faster - not better from a programming perspective. I was not really wondering about all those things, but I did enjoy reading about them.  Since my degree is in engineering (electrical), and I was educated in the US, quite a few years ago, I was not required to take many hour...

I used to work for one of the first companies that sold those 20 MB hard drives (in the US).  The company was named Prizm Computer Products.  I later worked for another company, Great Lakes Computer Peripherals that also sold 20 MB hard disks - though I think we eventually got to 40MB or more. I als...

Yes, I liked DOS.  It did what one needed done to use a computer and it kept the riff-raff away (the non-techy people).  I did not use Windows at all until Win 95.  Now THAT was a good version of Windows.  I also liked XP and Win 7. As much as I liked DOS and especially that it took a techy to use i...

Kilmatead, As usual, and interesting, entertaining, educational commentary on a technical issue.  And while I enjoyed reading your post, when I was done, I was not really sure what Nikos (Lucan) had done.  I understand it is related to the I attribute but I am not clear what the issue is and why it ...

As per usual, I agree with Kilmatead.  There should be an icon in that spot on the status bar (AND others - like the filter) whether or not there is an active state.  Show the funnel or show the funnel with the red circle with a line to indicate no filter.  For those of us that do not use a feature ...

Kilmatead, I believe I understand the issue as you describe it.  On its face it seems completely inconsistent - and illogical.  However, a programmer must be logical, so why would Nikos, a programmer, create such inconsistent functionality?  Is it that he cannot easily find a way, programmatically, ...

OK, Kilmatead, since you expanded the poll choices I will vote.  My vote is that I "do not understand the question" however I might also vote "I don't care" - possibly because I do not understand the question. From my position of not understanding this seems to be a feature that ...

This is kind of a mess.  IMHO there is too much going on automatically.  That may be fine for the very experienced user or the user that does a particular filter operation frequently.  However for someone who might have need of this feature a few times a year, a virtual minefield awaits them. A fold...

Kilmatead,

The history of your residence is indeed an interesting connection to my comment on the beginning of the revolution over here.  Unfortunately neither my home nor the village I live in have any connection to the war of independence or to the Dublin area.

Here, in the colonies, we true rebels actually use "statuses" as the plural of status.  Although for Caesar, crossing the Rubicon was rebellious and a momentous act that changed history, we think in 1775 the "shot heard round the world" on Lexington Green was also a momentous act...

I wish I knew about your reputation and inclination for the off-topic digression before I started this dialog.  I would not have been so restrained.  I should have known you were a philosophy major - that would have also changed my responses.  You sound more like a literature major - but philosophy ...

Kilmatead, Well, alrighty then. First, I am not a Republican.  Never was.  I am currently what is classified as an Independent - more middle ground - not aligned with either major party.  I understand that conservative views are often associated with more mature citizens, and I have become more cons...