Digital maps with GPS for the Newton.
--- On Tue, 04 Feb 1997 17:15:18 -0800 Aaron Wallace <aaron@ifact.com>
wrote:
> 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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