#DOES KAIRON ASTROLOGY PROGRAM HAVE WHOLE SIGN HOUSE WINDOWS#
In 19 two Pico laptops - the Sentinel and the Consul - successively took over, again at enormous expense and in 2002/3 after selling the Chaplet, another small fortune procured a stunning Toshiba Satellite and the brilliant little Samsung Q20 both running Windows XP. But after a year this was letting me down. Even this cost over £1000! How times have changed. In 1997 the Travelmate found a new owner the proceeds helped to fund the purchase of a reconditioned IBM Thinkpad, a sturdy, classy black beast with a huge 1.4 Gb hard drive and 24 Mb of Ram. On this the Solar Fire graphics came vividly alive, and I could run the high-end astronomy program Dance of the Planets night and day for months on end back to the first century BC, plotting asteroids with ever greater precision for the events of the Gospels. grey it was time to move on to the longed-for colour screen, and along came a Texas Instruments Travelmate with its lovely TFT display. On this loved little machine I worked for two years - at first with the Matrix DOS program Blue*Star, Mark Pottenger’s CCRS92and Mark Lipson’s clever Capella - until in 1995 the new and ground-breaking Solar Firefor Windows shot to the top of my wish-list. It ran Windows 3.1 on Ms-Dos 5.0, and cost an eye-watering £1,496.95. It was small and light, and called the Edgecraft Chaplet it was silvery-grey with an 80 Mb hard drive, four whole megabytes of RAM, a mono display and an enviable keyboard. Or rather, notebook computer, as it spent almost all of its time on my study desk with the occasional foray into an AA Conference hall. I t is twenty yearssince I bought my first laptop.
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