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Re: how are the tables for declination generated ? equation ? etc......
From: Courtney Thomas
Date: 2005 Feb 12, 09:41 -0500
From: Courtney Thomas
Date: 2005 Feb 12, 09:41 -0500
Frank, I neglected to mention I too have a couple of Macs, including a portable, if that affects any of your recommendations. Cordially, Courtney Frank Reed wrote: > Courtney, you wrote: > > "I have a couple of old calculators laying about unused, e.g. TI-82 and > HP-28C. Used to have an HP-97 that had programmable cards and a small > printer." > > > > In that case (putting the unused hardware to good use), I would say go > with Bill Murdoch's excellent and detailed instructions posted to the > list a few hours ago. It's Sun-only, but it'll get you where you're going. > > > > " I have a small network at home with several machines running > FreeBSD, Linux [several flavors], Novell, SCO, MS Windows [several > flavors], etc.." > > > > Cool. :-) I've got two Linux flavors, two Windows flavors, and two MacOS > flavors. But only three machines :-(. When I see people collecting old > editions of Bowditch's Navigator, I wonder whether there will be similar > collections of today's computer operating systems in 200 years... or sooner. > > > > And you wrote: > "I've done a little programming but it's not my trade. I have a > familiarity with Fortran, Pascal, Basic, ASM, & C" > > > > Not that it's relevant to the calculator coding task, but I have to > mention my favorite coding environment for the past couple of years. > It's called Realbasic. Do you know it? Very nice, modern Basic with > unbelievably good cross-platform compilation. You can code under Windows > or Mac and compile for Windows, Mac9.x, MacOSX, or Linux. No kidding. It > works. > > > > -FER > 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. > www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars > -- s/v Mutiny Rhodes Bounty II lying Oriental, NC WDB5619