Etak Navigator

From: Patrick Rigney <patrick_at_evocative.com>
Date: Mon Oct 7 19:04:00 2002

Brian, you are so right. My bad. New habits die hard. Thanks for spotting
the error. --Patrick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> Behalf Of Brian Chase
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 4:21 PM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: Etak Navigator
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Patrick Rigney wrote:
>
> > Back in the mid-80's, Etak began shipping what I believe is the first
> > commercially available in-vehicle navigation system. This
> system was the
> > precursor to today's driver-guidance systems, and Etak's patents are
> > probably in most if not all of them. The original Etak Navigator was a
> > specially-packaged 286 system with 256MB RAM and 256MB ROM, and
> a four-track
> > tape drive on which some of the "OS" and the digital maps were stored.
>
> I'm guessing you meant to say "256KB RAM and 256KB ROM"; otherwise, that
> computer would've probably cost several times more than the car in which
> it was used--at least back in the mid-1980s.
>
> -brian.
>
>
Received on Mon Oct 07 2002 - 19:04:00 BST