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What is Altair?
I was just on www.astronomynow.com and I was reading some of their archives
and couple of times I came across term "Altair" as being reference to something. I checked my astronomy programs for it, but it just comes up as a star or a binary star system. So I am wondering what does this Altair allow astronomers to do and when did this term come into existence. Thank you. |
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Zarkovic wrote:
I was just on www.astronomynow.com and I was reading some of their archives and couple of times I came across term "Altair" as being reference to something. I checked my astronomy programs for it, but it just comes up as a star or a binary star system. So I am wondering what does this Altair allow astronomers to do and when did this term come into existence. Thank you. You don't give the context in which you saw the term, so it's hard to say what's being referred to. Beside the Arabic-derived name of the bright star AKA Alpha Aquilae, perhaps it's a brand-name for some piece of equipment or software. A quick Google search shows that there's an astronomical calculator for Windows called Altair, for example -- since the star is pretty famous, usually counted about tenth or twelfth in brightness, the name seems to be used fairly often by technical companies and the like. -- Odysseus |
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Zarkovic wrote:
I was just on www.astronomynow.com and I was reading some of their archives and couple of times I came across term "Altair" as being reference to something. I checked my astronomy programs for it, but it just comes up as a star or a binary star system. So I am wondering what does this Altair allow astronomers to do and when did this term come into existence. Thank you. You don't give the context in which you saw the term, so it's hard to say what's being referred to. Beside the Arabic-derived name of the bright star AKA Alpha Aquilae, perhaps it's a brand-name for some piece of equipment or software. A quick Google search shows that there's an astronomical calculator for Windows called Altair, for example -- since the star is pretty famous, usually counted about tenth or twelfth in brightness, the name seems to be used fairly often by technical companies and the like. -- Odysseus |
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:31:28 GMT, Odysseus
wrote: Zarkovic wrote: I was just on www.astronomynow.com and I was reading some of their archives and couple of times I came across term "Altair" as being reference to something. I checked my astronomy programs for it, but it just comes up as a star or a binary star system. So I am wondering what does this Altair allow astronomers to do and when did this term come into existence. Thank you. You don't give the context in which you saw the term, so it's hard to say what's being referred to. Beside the Arabic-derived name of the bright star AKA Alpha Aquilae, perhaps it's a brand-name for some piece of equipment or software. A quick Google search shows that there's an astronomical calculator for Windows called Altair, for example -- since the star is pretty famous, usually counted about tenth or twelfth in brightness, the name seems to be used fairly often by technical companies and the like. Didn't Altair also be the name for a particular brand of 'puter as well, back in the early days? -- Find out about Australia's most dangerous Doomsday Cult: http://users.bigpond.net.au/wanglese/pebble.htm "You can't fool me, it's turtles all the way down." |
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:31:28 GMT, Odysseus
wrote: Zarkovic wrote: I was just on www.astronomynow.com and I was reading some of their archives and couple of times I came across term "Altair" as being reference to something. I checked my astronomy programs for it, but it just comes up as a star or a binary star system. So I am wondering what does this Altair allow astronomers to do and when did this term come into existence. Thank you. You don't give the context in which you saw the term, so it's hard to say what's being referred to. Beside the Arabic-derived name of the bright star AKA Alpha Aquilae, perhaps it's a brand-name for some piece of equipment or software. A quick Google search shows that there's an astronomical calculator for Windows called Altair, for example -- since the star is pretty famous, usually counted about tenth or twelfth in brightness, the name seems to be used fairly often by technical companies and the like. Didn't Altair also be the name for a particular brand of 'puter as well, back in the early days? -- Find out about Australia's most dangerous Doomsday Cult: http://users.bigpond.net.au/wanglese/pebble.htm "You can't fool me, it's turtles all the way down." |
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"Wally Anglesea™" wrote:
Didn't Altair also be the name for a particular brand of 'puter as well, back in the early days? Sounds vaguely familiar, perhaps a kit that came out a little before the first Apples, say mid-1970s? -- Odysseus |
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"Wally Anglesea™" wrote:
Didn't Altair also be the name for a particular brand of 'puter as well, back in the early days? Sounds vaguely familiar, perhaps a kit that came out a little before the first Apples, say mid-1970s? -- Odysseus |
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there's an astronomical calculator for Windows called Altair, for example -- since the star is pretty famous, usually counted about tenth or twelfth in brightness, the name seems to be used fairly often by technical companies and the like. -- Odysseus Hi again. I am assuming they mean the computer Altair, I did the search but I keep getting some crappy museums and the names of the constellations. Anyhow can u expand on what this calculator does and when was it made and so on if u know. Thanks guys |
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there's an astronomical calculator for Windows called Altair, for example -- since the star is pretty famous, usually counted about tenth or twelfth in brightness, the name seems to be used fairly often by technical companies and the like. -- Odysseus Hi again. I am assuming they mean the computer Altair, I did the search but I keep getting some crappy museums and the names of the constellations. Anyhow can u expand on what this calculator does and when was it made and so on if u know. Thanks guys |
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Zarkovic wrote:
Hi again. I am assuming they mean the computer Altair, I did the search but I keep getting some crappy museums and the names of the constellations. Anyhow can u expand on what this calculator does and when was it made and so on if u know. Thanks guys Off the top of my head: made in mid '70's and didn't do much, apparently. It was a kit you assembled, and every bit of information had to be hand entered by flicking on-off switches. No monitor, only little red lights to tell you if you'd done anything or not. A few years back, a documentary called 'Triumph of the Nerds' chronicled the evolution of the PC. You might want to see if your library has it. In that they talked about the Altairs. Here's some links I found quick-searching: http://altair.ftldesign.com/ http://tinyurl.com/oxm4 http://tinyurl.com/oxm6 -- ·.·´¨ ¨)) -:¦:- ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) Kent ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:- ((¸¸ .., ·.· Remove "RemoveThisToReply" from address to reply |
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