Day 812

Did a lot of computing, finished the new version of the ephemeris - v6.12 of the whole prog. Now it can print out ephemeris pages for all the planets, but it's very slow at 8 MHz - OK for a batch job though. It works, that's the main thing.

Went round to mum's and helped her with her computer. Had a monetary success in the afternoon when, eventually finding my old TSB cheque book after an extended search, I rang the bank to check if it could still be used and incidentally discovered, once I'd said I was expecting £405, that £406.38 had cleared in the morning. So down there tomorrow to acquire a Psion 3a and serial link for £400, with another £130 coming next month. So there are tangible benefits from the ABC caper.