[time-nuts] Ed Tuck, founder of Magellan, dies

Jeremy Nichols jn6wfo at gmail.com
Sat Jul 15 14:55:24 UTC 2017


Fenton's first name was *Rupert*.


On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Back in the day,  I talked with him several times and worked on some
> issues with their original GPS board firmware.
>
> Lady Heather actually started out as a program to control their first OEM
> boards ($800 each, qty 1... unheard of at the time).  It was written around
> the time of the first gulf war when the whole military inventory of GPS
> boards was well under 1000 units and they needed a lot more GPS units very
> quickly.  The program could run on a PC or the HP 95LX palmtop.
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