Garmin 1999 to 2006

[ebbo]

A trip down memory lane, what do you remember…


January 7, 1999
Garmin announce Mapsource, U.S. Roads & Recreation CD available in January 1999 at a suggested list price of $99. WorldMap available to consumers in February 1999 at a suggested list price of $69.99


January 7, 1999
Garmin launches its second Streetpilot, the ColorMap at $699.99 No turn by turn routing or voice, it just slows a straight line to your intended destination.


August 15, 2000
Larger Garmin proprietary data cards on the way, 64mb for $349.99 & 128mb for $549.99 Plus a USB card reader available at $79.99


January 6, 2001
The big leap forward…Garmin launch the Streetpilot III, offering turn by turn navigation and voice prompts!!! With a suggested retail price of $1,272.


May 7, 2001
Garmin introduce a Points of Interest CD at $58.32. (I had one a while back, chucked out now I suspect)


December 3, 2001
BMW to market its own version of the Streetpilot III and aimed at the K1200LTE


July 16, 2003
Garmin announce the Streetpilot 2610 & 2650 (with Arm920T 180Mhz processor, finally banishes the slow operation of the Streetpilot III). With retail prices of $1,166.65 and $1,399.98, respectively


Febuary 12, 2004
Garmin launch the 276c Marine & Auto navigator with a retail price of $746.65 (but you need the add on Auto Navigator kit to get the mapping, data card and car mount)


July 12, 2004
Garmin introduce the Quest pocket size navigator that proved very popular with motorcyclists with suggested retail price of $642.84


July 19, 2006
Garmin announce the Zumo, its first motorcycle specific GPS amidst much grumbling abouts its auto route recalculation issue (now resolved)

 

[Capt Over-reaction]

Sniffle, I remember, back in 2000, when we collected our new mono streetpilot from gpsw.
Told missus 'twas the bees knees.

All it did was say:

"It's in that direction" and that was as the crow flies

No auto routing, big aerial, mono, £££££ Garmin Data Cards

Made todays machines a doddle to master 'tho. 30 Years man an'boy

 

[ebbo]

Mono Streetpilot, I had one too, my second GPS. Slowest screen redraw I’ve ever seen, riding back from Ireland it couldn’t redraw fast enough to keep up with the bike

All that money! oh how I laughed

 

[Fanum]

And the lesson to be learnt??

NEVER EVER BE AN EARLY ADOPTER

Bleeding edge GPS for over a grand?
Betamax video recorders?
3 grand 'cos it's a pentium rather than a 486?

Untested 1200GS's?

You don't want to be an 'early adopter'...you want to be an 'early majority'

 

[ianboydsnr]

Mono Streetpilot, I had one too, my second GPS. Slowest screen redraw I’ve ever seen, riding back from Ireland it couldn’t redraw fast enough to keep up with the bike

All that money! oh how I laughed

and i still have one

have a zumo 550 also

 

[araspitfire]

My first experience with GPS was in 1987 when working as a Helicopter Mechanic in Canada. During a bank holiday (not for helicopter mechanics =) I got trained as a fill-in to go out with a survey rig and collect data for an hour for use in post-processing.... Thing was the satellites were so sparse then that we could only collect for one hour per day....

Later I used GPS for work off and on till I bought my first one in 1996 a Garmin GPS 38.. Fit in the hand, had a "map" display... 4 AA's lasted maybe 8 hours... took forever to find birds, and a walk into the forest made it loose lock... so using it for hiking in trees was a pain... great for Kayaking though... Even though SA made it inaccurate as hell...

Next one was an Etrex Vista.. Then a 60C.. and now a 2820... Still have all of em.. they all work. I used lots of non-Garmin GPS's for work, but they've always just seemed to make "what I needed" at the time I was looking...

Al...

 

[Howard Millichap]

My first GPS in about 1992 was a "12". Didn't even have a map on it!

2nd was an e-Trex Vista in 199?. Bloody good GPS. Still got it and use it for walking. Did use it on the bike but the screen got too small for my eyes. And it's black & white screen made confusing rivers and roads too easy. Oh how they took the piss.

3rd and current one is a Street Pilot 3. Only thing wrong with it really is the calculation speed. If they made an upgraded one with a faster processor I'd buy one. But I suppose that'd be called a Zumo.

 

[ovenpaa]

My first was a GPS12 as well, for our first trip we hung it on to a laptop and navigated all through Europe to North Jutland with Autoroute.

Still have it, still works and still gets used sometimes for walks.