No, it would use the same Microsoft auth it already uses for xbox, outlook, windows etc.

Well the mouse and keyboards are actually pretty good…

a set of only 9 characters

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OCR existed long before the 486. AFAIK it was already used in the 70’s or 80’s to scan mail and presort them based on the postcode. I remember that postcards had light orange boxes (presumably because this color was invisible to B/W scanners?) with dots inside where you where supposed to write the postcode numbers in.

ChatGPT can recognize text on images already.