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>MEGASTAR:
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> Megastar did indeed come out just before Guide 1.0 did, with the
>GSC on something like 40 floppies (5 1/2 inch ones, no less). Both
>programs were first advertised in the May 1993 _Sky & Telescope_,
>pages 85 and 86. Emil Bonanno, the author of Megastar, and I
>learned of each other's programs when we got our advertising proofs
>from S&T; we turned them over, and there on the opposite side was
>the other guy's ad.

I was a user of the first edition of Megastar. It came on 40 3.5 inch
disks. 34 for the GSC, 4 for the NSO data and two program disks. I still
have it. As Bill said it is horses for courses out there. Megastar does
some things better than Guide and vice-versa.

> Emil's choice of floppies was not a bad idea; CD-ROMs were rare
>in 1993, and I got a lot of "is Guide available on floppy" requests.
>
>-- Bill
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