From: Paul Curtis (Nations One Mortgage) (MicroSSG_at_Comcast.net)
Date: Wed Apr 20 2005 - 18:35:23 PDT
From memory I think it was a CF card in an adapter and not a true PCMCIA
card...
Best Regards,
Paul Curtis
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-----Original Message-----
From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
[mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net] On Behalf Of Brian
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:01 PM
To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Free your GPS
On Wednesday, April 20, 2005, at 06:17 PM, newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net=20
wrote:
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Free your GPS
>
> Brian wrote:
>> This is true re: space for maps, 1x0 users would prefer serial
>> connection. I've used GPSLite on my 130 with a external serial port
>> GPS; it does work, it's not fast... Teletype might be better on the
>> slower units but I've not done that test.
>
> In my experience TeleType is pickier on the NMEA sentences it=20
> requires... I had tried to use it with my PCMCIA GPS card, and though
> it was=20 connected (using TeleTypeHack) and I could see sentences
> coming through in the=20=
> debug
> screen, no data was shown in the main screens...
>
That's interesting.
I'd only tried Teletype with the Haicom card; I never ran it with the=20
external GPS I borrowed to play with GPSLite (erm, test for=20
functionality).
Which PCMCIA card do you have=10?
IIRC, some cards, you can config the card a little bit to tweak the=20
output (likely using a supported laptop).
-Brian
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