Re: Global locator?

Aaron Wallace (aaron@ifact.com)
Tue, 04 Feb 1997 17:15:18 -0800

At 07:08 PM 2/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-01-28 21:06:51 EST, you write:
>
><< I heard when the Zoomer came out that there was a gobal positioning
> system avalable for the Zoomer... is this true?
> and is it still avalable? >>
>
>I saw an advertisement in Flying magazine about a year ago for a package GPS
>pc card with antenna and a Zoomer included for about a thousand US dollars.

GPS PCMCIA cards can be had for a few hundred dollars from Trimble
and others. Serial-based GPS units can be had for even less--one is
bundled with a mapping program for about $125. Clearly, the big
limitation in both cases is software support for the GPS, although
with a serial unit you might be able to log the NMEA data using a
terminal program.

Since you can get a full-featured hand-held GPS for $150-$250,
I'm not sure how much sense it would make to persue attaching
a GPS to a Zoomer, although having a large, pen-based screen
would be a nice thing to have...

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