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My dad hooked up a GPS to his laptop with a serial port and successfully used it with Microsoft Streets as perhaps one of the first car GPS navigation systems,
by lapetitejort 5y ago
My dad hooked up a GPS to his laptop with a serial port and successfully used it with Microsoft Streets as perhaps one of the first car GPS navigation systems, maybe back in 2000 or so. MS bought Streets in 1994, four years before Google was founded. They dropped the ball with maps.
- gambiting 5y agoFyi, first GPS navigation system fitted to a production car came in 1990: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_navigation_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_navigation_system
- bluedino 5y agoMS streets and trips was available at OfficeMax for $50, though. We used that suction cup attached blue LED USB GPS receiver and a laptop for war driving, so much fun.
- tfigment 5y agoI did something like this around 1999 to do house hunting in Boston area. Didn't actually work that well for me though.