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Re: Just getting started (Pubs 214/229)
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2007 Jan 19, 19:51 -0800
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2007 Jan 19, 19:51 -0800
The preface of my 1981 edition of HO229 says the calculations were performed on an IBM 1410 computer. The 1410 was sold or leased by IBM from 1960 to 1970, so the ~1970 date seems right. Interestingly, Mystic Seaport claims HO229 was first published in 1981: http://www.mysticseaport.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=E37B012C-B0D0-D05E-1A1C5EF9D0FEE2AE Chuck should send them the publication date page from his 1970 copy!! Lu Abel Chuck Taylor wrote: > Doug Royer wrote: > > >>BTW, does anybody know why they switched from the >>214 format to the 229 format... > > > The 1962 edition of Bowditch (including the 1966 > reprint) does not mention Pub 229 at all, but gives > extensive coverage of Pub 214. When I studied > Navigation in about 1967 (Navy ROTC), we were taught > Pub 214. My oldest volume of Pub 229 is dated 1970. I > did a search of abebooks.com and found 12 copies dated > 1970, and zero copies with an earlier publication > date. I vote for 1970 as the date of first publication > for Pub 229. > > Chuck Taylor > 48 d N > 122 d W > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Cheap talk? > Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. > http://voice.yahoo.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
