Alan Browne schrieb:
On 2019-02-19 08:46, Reinhard Zwirner wrote:
Reinhard Zwirner schrieb:
[...]
Hi,
Finally I was successful :-) though it turned out that my memory
showed minor errors ;-(.
1. It was not the Trimble Scout, but the Trimble Scoutmaster
advertised.
2. It was not about a lake, but about a creek.
[...]
Talk about amnesia lane ...
Ultimately, it seems that my memory in fact has been right :-)!
Coincidentally, I found an article by Bob Pease of October 25, 1994:
<quote>
What's All This GPS Stuff, Anyhow?
The thing that just got me turned on to GPS----the Global Positioning System----was a recent advertisement I saw in an electronics
magazine. "You'll never get lost when you carry the Model X GPS
global positioning system from our company." The advertisement also
showed a nice map of Trinity Lake and Weaverville, Calif., 200 miles
north of San Francisco. I know this because I own an exact duplicate
of the map, a very nice map.
Yet in the advertisement, the Model X GPS receiver indicates on its
LCD display that the position is 35º00´ North, and 117º52.3´ West.
That just happens to be 250 miles southeast of San Francisco, down by
Muroc Dry Lake and Edwards Air Force Base----about 425 miles from
Trinity Lake. So I was a little piqued at why these guys were
bragging so much about their particular GPS receiver. ".... never
get lost...." ---??? [...]
</quote>
Unfortunately, this article says nothing as to the model type.
Regards
Reinhard
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