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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
>


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