PC / Mac / Atari!

I try not to get into these computer debates, that's an old OLD flame bait war
topic left over from the days of the BBS's ( one of which I was the SYSOP of ).

But I've been reading this one between to or three users, one a pc/windoz user,
the 2nd a mac and a Lunix one in there someplace.

Right now I am using one of these windoz machines, because when working with
yahoogroups I needed it for java support, as my main machine(s) are my Atari
1040ST and my Atari TT030. I have astronomy programs on them too along with two
of them here. The ones here are fancyer than my Atari ones, but I must say, the
Atari ones, are fine for what I use them for and are sure a lot smaller in size
too.

If I still had a running Atari 800XL, I used to have a simple astronomy program
on it, just kind of a fun program to use, but that was yeas ago.



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lingered: and along the path he once had followed, man would one day go
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Arthur C. Clarke, The City & The Stars

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"Starlord" wrote in message
...
I try not to get into these computer debates, that's an old OLD flame bait
war
topic left over from the days of the BBS's ( one of which I was the SYSOP
of ).

But I've been reading this one between to or three users, one a pc/windoz
user,
the 2nd a mac and a Lunix one in there someplace.

Right now I am using one of these windoz machines, because when working
with
yahoogroups I needed it for java support, as my main machine(s) are my
Atari
1040ST and my Atari TT030. I have astronomy programs on them too along
with two
of them here. The ones here are fancyer than my Atari ones, but I must
say, the
Atari ones, are fine for what I use them for and are sure a lot smaller in
size
too.

If I still had a running Atari 800XL, I used to have a simple astronomy
program
on it, just kind of a fun program to use, but that was yeas ago.

nice to hear someone is using atari's! I used to have a C64, then an Atari
1040ST, then moved to linux (on x86), now using XP. I gave away my 1040
years ago, still miss him sometimes, that was my absolute favorite computer.
I coded multiple particle gravity simulators, and solar system simulator
etc.

well, all gone now, but those were the days.

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 03:48:53 -0800, "Starlord" wrote:

..., as my main machine(s) are my Atari
1040ST and my Atari TT030. I have astronomy programs on them too along with two
of them here. The ones here are fancyer than my Atari ones, but I must say, the
Atari ones, are fine for what I use them for and are sure a lot smaller in size
too.

Jeesh, what a waste of money! I'm doing most of my serious work on my Timex
Sinclair 1000, $99 with 4K of memory. Nobody's every going to really need more
than that.

_________________________________________________

Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:26:53 GMT, Chris L Peterson
wrote:

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 03:48:53 -0800, "Starlord" wrote:

..., as my main machine(s) are my Atari
1040ST and my Atari TT030. I have astronomy programs on them too along with two
of them here. The ones here are fancyer than my Atari ones, but I must say, the
Atari ones, are fine for what I use them for and are sure a lot smaller in size
too.

Jeesh, what a waste of money! I'm doing most of my serious work on my Timex
Sinclair 1000, $99 with 4K of memory. Nobody's every going to really need more
than that.
The ENIAC was used for nuclear physic simulations and it had only about 2250
bytes of memory. The flight computer of Apollo 11 had about the same
capabilities.

BTW the Sinclair 1000 has 8k of ROM and 2k of RAM and i am the very proud owner
of a 16k memory board. Now talk about computing power!!

_______________________________________________ __

Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

Good night!

Benoît Morrissette

If I still had a running Atari 800XL, I used to have a simple astronomy
program
on it, just kind of a fun program to use, but that was yeas ago.

Hi Dennis:

I always thought the last Ataris were interesting machines. I did have an 800
for a while. Actually, though, the first astro program I remember owning was
one for the Commodore 64...I believe it was on a ROM cartridge.

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
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Jeesh, what a waste of money! I'm doing most of my serious work on my Timex
Sinclair 1000, $99 with 4K of memory. Nobody's every going to really need
more
than that.

Timex Sinclair? Oh, a FANCY computer...I'm still running my TRS 80 Model 1! :-)

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
Like SCTs and MCTs?
Check-out sct-user, the mailing list for CAT fanciers!
Goto http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html

Starlord wrote:

I try not to get into these computer debates, that's an old OLD flame bait war
topic left over from the days of the BBS's ( one of which I was the SYSOP of ).

But I've been reading this one between to or three users, one a pc/windoz user,
the 2nd a mac and a Lunix one in there someplace.

Right now I am using one of these windoz machines, because when working with
yahoogroups I needed it for java support, as my main machine(s) are my Atari
1040ST and my Atari TT030. I have astronomy programs on them too along with two
of them here. The ones here are fancyer than my Atari ones, but I must say, the
Atari ones, are fine for what I use them for and are sure a lot smaller in size
too.

If I still had a running Atari 800XL, I used to have a simple astronomy program
on it, just kind of a fun program to use, but that was yeas ago.


Wow! You still have a 1040ST up and running?

I got tired of having to resocket the chips in that beast and sold it
off a long time ago. Not that I don't miss it or the 1200XL that
preceded it. Archon, anyone? 8^
---
Mike

I picked up an Amiga 1000 in 1984 and, a little later, a wonderful astronomy
program called Galileo (later re-issued as Distant Suns). To this day, that
1000 and it's original monitor does as beautiful a job of displaying stars
in its native low res as many of the latest high tech PC video cards can do
at high res.

I donated my 1000 a couple years ago to guy who observes from a wheel chair
but this thread has me tempted to dust off my old TI 99/4A and hunt the web
for some TI-BASIC astronomyware :-)


-Paul S. Walsh

In a followup to my own post, I just googled "Distant Suns" and found that
it's still alive (since 1985) and now available for XP. Think I'll try the
free download and see how she looks. Here's the link:

http://www.distantsuns.com/


-Paul S. Walsh




"Paul S. Walsh" wrote in message
...
I picked up an Amiga 1000 in 1984 and, a little later, a wonderful
astronomy
program called Galileo (later re-issued as Distant Suns). To this day,
that
1000 and it's original monitor does as beautiful a job of displaying stars
in its native low res as many of the latest high tech PC video cards can
do
at high res.

I donated my 1000 a couple years ago to guy who observes from a wheel
chair
but this thread has me tempted to dust off my old TI 99/4A and hunt the
web
for some TI-BASIC astronomyware :-)


-Paul S. Walsh

I got my start on a T/S 1000, got the 3rd party keyboard and at the end I had a
full 64k ram on it, was planing to get the disk drive interface when I ran into
the Atari 800xl, the rest is history.


--
"In this universe the night was falling,the shadows were lengthening
towards an east that would not know another dawn.
But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning
lingered: and along the path he once had followed, man would one day go
again."

Arthur C. Clarke, The City & The Stars

SIAR
www.starlords.org
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Telescope Buyers FAQ
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"Benoit Morrissette" wrote in message
...
The ENIAC was used for nuclear physic simulations and it had only about 2250
bytes of memory. The flight computer of Apollo 11 had about the same
capabilities.

BTW the Sinclair 1000 has 8k of ROM and 2k of RAM and i am the very proud
owner
of a 16k memory board. Now talk about computing power!!

_______________________________________________ __

Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

Good night!

Benoît Morrissette


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