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Onboard electronic almananc
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2002 Mar 31, 16:24 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2002 Mar 31, 16:24 +1000
Vic Fraenkel wrote: 'would like to have an nautical almanac in my computer on my sailboat.' A number of the small (size of a scientific calculator - on which they are based) machines designed to take the drudgery out of celestial navigation also contain an almanac good for many years (like about 200! Guess they figure that's all we're likely to need). Otherwise, there used to be ads in early editions of 'Ocean Navigator' for almanacs on disk designed for the old DOS (operating system). You never know, having written yours there may be an opportunity there to publish it as a CD - but then again, maybe someone else knows that this already exists.