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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 14:50:41 EDT
I've followed the proverbial threads on this subject ever since I've been on this list and have always been amazed at what is perhaps my good luck (?)
I've used the same Dell laptop, Windows 2000, then XP (including patches,etc) and Nobeltec VNS (including a couple of upgrades), including vector and raster maps, all quilting nicely every time, driven off a Furuno GPS 32 that I repeatedly connect and disconnect to the serial port (taking the laptop on and off the boat), and in the 5-6 years I've had it it's never crashed, blinked, frozen, failed to load waypoints, or gotten confused. I've simpathized with everyone that has these repeated problems with technology, but for me it's been almost a seamless experience. And no, I'm not computer geek of any kind. It all also works perfectly when I connect it up to my portable Garmin GPS III. Sorry, but it all does work fine for some of us - it can't possibly be only me.
Nobeltec did (does?) have one strange bug when I would try to use the night vision screens. It woudl fragment the data console display all over the screen, requiring one to rebuild the screen arraingment. So, I just figured out a couple of good screen settings in XP for color, contrast & brightness - now I leave VNS alone and control the screen intensity with XP. Works fine.
I tried, and have, a nice red plexiglass sheet that fits the screen perfectly but it washes out all the color on the maps and makes them seem more dangerous to me. The colors seem to me to be an important part of maps to help distinguish improtant features. Must be difficult if one were to be color blind.
Randy Hamblin
SAGA
Seattle, WA
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> >Admittedly, I misunderstood the issuance of charts by Garmin. But how
> was I supposed to know that I could or should update my GPS. Frustration
> city. Only now I can't import waypoints and routes to the laptop from
> the GPS.
>
> Right about the time I start thinking perhaps it would be worth looking
> into computer-based navigation systems I read a post like this, and my
> instinct to stay with our totally trouble-free, C-MapNT dedicated
> plotter system is reinforced. It may not be fancy, it may not be color,
> and it may not show me our boat's position relative to the third ling
> cod from the left on the bottom. But in the six years we've had it it's
> never crashed, blinked, frozen, failed to load waypoints, or gotten
> confused, and its CRT green-screen is readable under all light
> conditions. I'm not anti-technology by any means, but I do often wonder
> about the value of technology for technology's sake, especially when all
> I want to do is go from Point A to Point B via Point C without hitting
> anything.
>
>
> ______________________________
> C. Marin Faure
> GB36-403 "La Perouse"
> Bellingham, Washington
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