I dunno, your pipe dreams are pretty close to my own ;) On Jun 2, 2015 11:39 AM, "Hiraghm" <[email protected]> wrote:
> In Issue December 1990 of Portable 100, there's an article on page 14 > about using your Model T as a Trip Navigator. It's based on waypoints you > designate your rate of travel and fuel consumption, and it makes a straight > line graph to measure your progress (I can't help thinking of The Oregon > Trail and The Organ Trail video games...) > > I have an old Streets and Trips 2008, that came with a GPS receiver, with > a USB plug on the end. So, typically, I wonder to myself if there would be > some way to connect the USB to my serial port, and then use my Model 100 as > a *real* navigator. Primitive, yes. Slow, almost certainly. But, very very > very retro-cool. > > Anyway, just thought I'd throw that idea out there along with the others. > I only bring this stuff up in case it inspires others on the mailing list > in developing their current or new projects. If someone finds it annoying, > let me know and I'll shut up. >
