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The Forgotten Story of ETAK's Amazing 1985 Car Navigation System

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    This didn't seem to fit Insider News, whereas it's not new tech, but this is a supercool historical story nonetheless and one I thought a lot of you might enjoy seeing the history of your digitized maps and a functioning navigation system from the mid 1980's.

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    "It's a funny thing to say, but it was hard to sell, because people had no expectation that there was something like that that was available."

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    • D dexterama

      This didn't seem to fit Insider News, whereas it's not new tech, but this is a supercool historical story nonetheless and one I thought a lot of you might enjoy seeing the history of your digitized maps and a functioning navigation system from the mid 1980's.

      Quote:

      "It's a funny thing to say, but it was hard to sell, because people had no expectation that there was something like that that was available."

      the link[^]

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      Thank you for that! :thumbsup: That was fascinating - and a brilliant development before GPS Satellites.

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