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

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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.

<https://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/big/12b4-qs-fdcf.jpg> <https://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/big/12b4-qt-5766.jpg> <https://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/big/12b4-qu-4e57.jpg>

Bye

Reinhard

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On 2019-02-19 08:46, Reinhard Zwirner wrote:

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.

<https://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/big/12b4-qs-fdcf.jpg> <https://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/big/12b4-qt-5766.jpg> <https://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/big/12b4-qu-4e57.jpg>

Talk about amnesia lane ...


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Alan Browne schrieb:

On 2019-02-19 08:46, Reinhard Zwirner wrote:

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.

[...]

Talk about amnesia lane ...

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

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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:

<https://s18.directupload.net/images/190505/bowkakwp.jpg>

Delighted ;-)

Reinhard

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On 2019-05-05 11:10, Reinhard Zwirner wrote:

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:

<https://s18.directupload.net/images/190505/bowkakwp.jpg>

Delighted ;-)

Congrats on your tenacity paying off...


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