[gps-talkusers] Update on my GPS adventures and a question or two

Hello, all,
I just ran across a new tech gadget for your PC. It's called Port City, or the Sunbeam 20 in 1 Superior Panel. Kind of a strange name. It mounts in an extra CD drive bay, and has an 8-in-one card reader, two USB 2.0 jacks, a Fire-Wire port, a stereo in/out pair, and a bunch more stuff. All this for $35. Check it out from sunbeamtech dot com. No, I'm not selling them, but if you are having problems reading different cards, this might come in handy. I thoink those two front-mounted USB ports alone make this thing worth the price.

Dick Myers

From: "Don Bishop" <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: [Braillenote] Update on my GPS adventures and a question or two
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:59:48 -0700

Hi,

If the manuals and all are on the compact flash card and you wish to store them elsewhere, you could certainly free up space on the cf card by deleting
them from there afterwards.

Since I don't know what was placed on your cf card before it shipped to you, it's hard to suggest what to delete, but if you try copying from the cd to the cf
card and are told the files already exist and do you want to replace them or not, you probably need to check the file creation dates to see which set of files
are older.

As for getting maps onto the cf card, I thought the maps for your area were put onto the cf card before shipping, but maybe not. If not, you need to copy
them from the cd to the card.

Theoretically, activesync could probably be used for this but if it works it will take a very very very long time and probably will choke somewhere along the
way.

If you have access to a card reader, I strongly recommend using the card reader to copy directly from the cd to the card. The maps are very large,
depending on what state or states you want to copy of course.

If your pc or laptop doesn't have a cf slot but only a pcmcia slot, try going to radio shack and getting a cf to pcmcia adapter. They cost somewhere around
$11 I believe.

Even copying maps to the cf card using a pc can take several minutes, but it's more reliable than trying to use activesync.

Don



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