Searching for "ancient" Trimble advertisement

[Reinhard Zwirner]

Hi,

In the early days of non-military use of GPS Trimble published an ad
for IIRC Scout GPS handheld. The ad showed a map with a lake; the
display of the handheld showed the (alleged) position of it because
it turned out that the position indicated was for a completely
different place.

Does anyone here remember that ad? Is there a link?

Best regards and thanks for trying to remember

Reinhard

[Reinhard Zwirner]

Reinhard Zwirner schrieb:

Hi,

Finally I was successful :-) though it turned out that my memory
showed minor errors ;-(.

1. It was not the Trimble Scout, but the Trimble Scoutmaster advertised.
2. It was not about a lake, but about a creek.

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Bye

Reinhard

[croy]

What was the approximate date on that ad?

--
croy

[Reinhard Zwirner]

croy schrieb:

> What was the approximate date on that ad?

Hi,

June 1994.

HTH

Reinhard

[Reinhard Zwirner]

Reinhard Zwirner schrieb:

> Reinhard Zwirner schrieb:
>
> Hi,
>
> Finally I was successful :-) though it turned out that my memory
> showed minor errors ;-(.
>
> 1. It was not the Trimble Scout, but the Trimble Scoutmaster advertised.
> 2. It was not about a lake, but about a creek.

Ultimately, it seems that my memory in fact has been right :-)!
Coincidentally, I found an article by Bob Pease on October 25, 1994:

<quote>
What's All This GPS Stuff, Anyhow?

The thing that just got me turned on to GPS----the Global Positioning
System----was a recent advertisement I saw in an electronics
magazine. "You'll never get lost when you carry the Model X GPS
global positioning system from our company." The advertisement also
showed a nice map of Trinity Lake and Weaverville, Calif., 200 miles
north of San Francisco. I know this because I own an exact duplicate
of the map, a very nice map.

Yet in the advertisement, the Model X GPS receiver indicates on its
LCD display that the position is 35º00´ North, and 117º52.3´ West.

That just happens to be 250 miles southeast of San Francisco, down by
Muroc Dry Lake and Edwards Air Force Base----about 425 miles from
Trinity Lake. So I was a little piqued at why these guys were
bragging so much about their particular GPS receiver. ".... never
get lost...." ---??? [...]
</quote>

Unfortunately, this article says nothing as to the model type.

Regards

Reinhard

[Reinhard Zwirner]

Reinhard Zwirner schrieb:
> Reinhard Zwirner schrieb:
>> Reinhard Zwirner schrieb:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Finally I was successful :-) though it turned out that my memory
>> showed minor errors ;-(.
>>
>> 1. It was not the Trimble Scout, but the Trimble Scoutmaster advertised.
>> 2. It was not about a lake, but about a creek.
>
> Ultimately, it seems that my memory in fact has been right :-)!

> Coincidentally, I found an article by Bob Pease on October 25, 1994:[...} ^^
of
<sigh>

Reinhard

[Reinhard Zwirner]

Reinhard Zwirner schrieb:

[...]

> Unfortunately, this article says nothing as to the model type.

So, in the end I was in fact right about the Trimble Scout and the lake.

But ... there was in fact a different memory error: it was not
Trimble advertising!

It was an advertisement by the company which provided the PCB design
software for Trimble: P-CAD

And here, Ladies and Gentlemen, you can see that long searched for
advertisement:

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Delighted ;-)

Reinhard