AeroDD

I remember typing in Skyscape from Compute magazine back when I was in junior high school. I thought it was pretty cool to be able calculate the position of planetary objects. Certainly the timeliness of Halley’s comet’s return helped with increasing interest in these types of programs. Out of curiosity, I checked the article and code to see if it was Y2K compliant. The article says it works for dates from 1977 and into the future, the BASIC code requires a year input > 1977. Makes me wonder how far off the calculated positions for a date some 35 years after the program was written are from reality.

Pretty sure it’s real, or at least somebody’s dream to open them. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/28/tech/atari-hotels-trnd/index.html based on the date, it was announced before April 1