I'm getting old....

charlieg

Like many of us, retirement is thundering at us like a freight train... Today, I am searching for an Office installation DVD, because Microsoft just makes it so elephanting stupid. I'll wager $50 that there are no useful features in Word added since 200x. Nevertheless, off I went to "I left that $%$^^ dvd somewhere" search to avoid having to subscribe to Microsoft's bull$hit. I just tossed 50+ dvds of old drivers and os' and what not. I'm getting ready to go on round #2 and 3. It's so easy to accumulate this garbage thinking you might need it. Any one need 24+ power cords? You pay shipping :)

Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

honey the codewitch

charlieg wrote:

Like many of us, retirement is thundering at us like a freight train...

I'll most likely work until I drop. If there's one thing that has consistently gotten me out of bed in the morning since I was 8, it's coding, and I don't see that changing. I enjoy it too much. It's part of who I am. I don't even work for the money. I mean I need money, but if I didn't love what I do I'd make the worst employee imaginable. I don't work for the paycheck. I work because of the need to create and build, and the paycheck is a side effect. If I die at my desk I'll die with a smile.

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Rick York

I still use Office 2003 at home and it does everything I need it too. You can probably find it cheaply on fleabay if you need too. There are also places that re-sell OEM versions very inexpensively. They have MSoffice and a lot of other software. I have used them to buy Win10 for 10 to 15 bucks and I've no issues at all. If you want to see what they have and get a bit of a price break, visit this site : www.guru3d.com[^] and scroll down a bit until you see their advert. BTW - that's a pretty good site for computer hardware reviews. I visit it almost daily.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

Ron Anders

I hear ya. I have spindles and spindles and spindles of cds from running a computer shop for the last 30 years. I have just less of a year left on my lease then am calling it quits as in the commercial IT biz, the inmates are running the asylum and it's no fun anymore. I threw out some 30 pin simms and still have a wfw cd and windows 95 - I don't know.

RaviBee

Rick York wrote:

I still use Office 2003 at home and it does everything I need it too.

Me too! :) /ravi

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Rick York

If I recall correctly, it came with a computer I bought.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

CPallini

I still use Office 2013, but, hey, it is ONLY ten years old!

"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto

pkfox

I use LibreOffice does everything I need and a whole lot more.

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Richard Deeming

charlieg wrote:

I am searching for an Office installation DVD

I can't remember throwing them out, so I may still have the 30+ floppy disks to install Office 4.2, if that helps! :laugh:

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

dandy72

charlieg wrote:

I just tossed 50+ dvds of old drivers and os' and what not

Disk space is cheap. Ridiculously cheap. I did a massive purge of physical media myself years ago, but not before I converted everything to .ISO files. Mostly MSDN CDs and DVDs. This is my current Office folder:

12/20/2018 11:15 PM

12/22/2018 10:50 AM

12/04/2013 12:38 PM

12/15/2014 11:50 AM

03/20/2018 01:52 PM

06/09/2018 07:28 AM

11/23/2018 01:00 PM

10/07/2021 03:41 PM

03/02/2014 01:25 PM

      4.3 Professional

12/04/2013 12:42 PM

12/20/2018 11:19 PM

03/02/2014 01:01 PM

XP

...which reminds me, I never bothered looking for anything newer than 2021, since my employer is now providing me with the subscription-based version. [Edit] Doesn't look like there is an Office 2023.

StarNamer work

charlieg wrote:

Any one need 24+ power cords? You pay shipping :)

No thanks. They'd be US type and I have my own collection of unused UK ones! I've also got a collection of Ethernet patch cables and a 16-port Gigabit switch which your message prompted me to check and find that it had 1 active device, apart from the router, and there was a spare port on the router!

charlieg wrote:

It's so easy to accumulate this garbage thinking you might need it.

And, of course, when you need it, you can't find it!

englebart

If wfw is windows for Workgroups, the best feature in that OS was multiplayer Hearts.

Gary R Wheeler

I've been doing an attic cleanout for the last couple of months, as my daughter planned to come get all of her stuff. I threw out two 30 gallon trash bags of cables. None of the discarded cables were for a connection technology I'm still using. Coax (cable TV), RCA audio plugs, SVHS video, early USB, RS-232, Centronics parallel. Probably came to over $5,000 when originally purchased, and now not even useful for garroting politicians.

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