Map Happenings posted a retrospective of the Etak, the original in-car navigation computer from 1985. The simple and unambigious monochrome display looks great! Lacking GPS, the technical tricks it used to pinpoint the user’s location, such as magnetic dead reckoning, are now “high-end features” of navigation systems. — Read the rest

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