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18 minutes ago, Swampfox762 said:

Back in the day

Plus a telephone, GPS, Dictaphone with auto type, electronic autosign device (those were the size of a teletypewriter and seldom worked) Fax machine, tape measure, plumbob, level, arcade game, deck of cards, “Book” store by the airport personal casino and they keep adding more. 
 

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Early GPS. 

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6 hours ago, Batesmotel said:

Plus a telephone, GPS, Dictaphone with auto type, electronic autosign device (those were the size of a teletypewriter and seldom worked) Fax machine, tape measure, plumbob, level, arcade game, deck of cards, “Book” store by the airport personal casino and they keep adding more. 
 

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Early GPS. 

Working for a Military contractor, I got one of the first personal GPS hendhelds.

I called Lockheed Martin's F-16 Plant in Ft. Worth and asked for their GPS coordinates so I could use my GPS to get to their plant.

I got shuffled around and finally they told me they didn't know the coordinates.

I was asked why I cared?  I told them I was using GPS to get to their plant since I didn't have any idea where they were and I was arriving by commercial air.

They said that "That is so cool!".  As the years progressed I used GPS all the time.

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