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Ed Tuck, founder of Magellan, dies

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Mark Sims
Fri, Jul 14, 2017 4:43 PM

Back in the day,  I talked with him several times and worked on some issues with their original GPS board firmware.

Lady Heather actually started out as a program to control their first OEM boards ($800 each, qty 1... unheard of at the time).  It was written around the time of the first gulf war when the whole military inventory of GPS boards was well under 1000 units and they needed a lot more GPS units very quickly.  The program could run on a PC or the HP 95LX palmtop.

Back in the day, I talked with him several times and worked on some issues with their original GPS board firmware. Lady Heather actually started out as a program to control their first OEM boards ($800 each, qty 1... unheard of at the time). It was written around the time of the first gulf war when the whole military inventory of GPS boards was well under 1000 units and they needed a lot more GPS units very quickly. The program could run on a PC or the HP 95LX palmtop.
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Jeremy Nichols
Sat, Jul 15, 2017 2:55 PM

Fenton's first name was Rupert.

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Mark Sims holrum@hotmail.com wrote:

Back in the day,  I talked with him several times and worked on some
issues with their original GPS board firmware.

Lady Heather actually started out as a program to control their first OEM
boards ($800 each, qty 1... unheard of at the time).  It was written around
the time of the first gulf war when the whole military inventory of GPS
boards was well under 1000 units and they needed a lot more GPS units very
quickly.  The program could run on a PC or the HP 95LX palmtop.


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Fenton's first name was *Rupert*. On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Mark Sims <holrum@hotmail.com> wrote: > Back in the day, I talked with him several times and worked on some > issues with their original GPS board firmware. > > Lady Heather actually started out as a program to control their first OEM > boards ($800 each, qty 1... unheard of at the time). It was written around > the time of the first gulf war when the whole military inventory of GPS > boards was well under 1000 units and they needed a lot more GPS units very > quickly. The program could run on a PC or the HP 95LX palmtop. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. >