![]() ![]() I called out on the GPSBabel list months ago for 400, 500, 600 users and got ZERO interest. Well, two of those never had a (supported) computer connection, IIRC. I had a DNF from mistyping the coordinates in my Map330 and I started writing code to talk to the device from SCO UNIX after being frustrated with the tools available at the time. ![]() ![]() It was just before the Christmas holiday in 2001 when I was still in a neck brace from my very first spinal surgery (the morning of 9/11) when I started geocaching. In vaguely related news, the birthdate of GPSBabel's original code turns drinking age this week. Once that PR is submitted, it shall be done. I'll just "spray and pray" in the build cluster at Github. For some reason, the doc build is silently failing on my machine right now and I don't feel like debugging that. Once I get that build green, I'll push it and it'll be gone in the nightlies and all future builds. While I still can't predict how much time I can devote to software just due to the nature of spinal issues, I do have some random lucid hours from time to time, so I can still pop out a release or two a year even if working from the bed or something. For a few years after my surgeries, I was "frownie face" most of the time. I think I probably have a thousand or more finds that I've not even logged when I cached in part of a group on GeoWoodstock weekends, but I'm pretty much a former geocacher at this point. South SF Bay had enough geocaches to keep me occupied and there was enough flat land that I could choose my own adventures to tailor my days to my pain level for the day. By the time I purchased it, my own geocaching was largely limited by my own health and available time to business travels when I was "stuck" out of town. The 600 at least rebooted more quickly when it crashed. The 450 it replaced had gotten crash-happy. Mineral, close call! The 600 was actually the last device that I purchased when it was substantially discounted. (Good luck with that Magellan stuff that required online registration, for example.) I also know you realize the difference between using them and collecting them and are prepared to use bespoke software if you can get it at all. I miss the idea of Garmin having a strong competitor, but those units were never justifiably never supported by GPSBabel - or much else and the illusion of a competitor.Ītlas, I understand your collection. ![]() It was sad because, IMO, it was about the last time a fresh spin on geocaching was taken in the handset market However, neither of these required any explicit support in GPSBabel (the GC could simply eat our GPX writer's output) so they require no extenuating support from our code. They, of course, licensed/bought a lot of that potential, but those little green potato-shaped units had a lot of UI promise that pretty much fell flat on the floor at launch. Neither of those ever worked with GPSBabel, Like you, we can kind of hear the spooky Irish flooky/spooky flutes playing in the background.just before the glugging sound of water mutes them all sink.Įxplorist GC and upper x10 geocaching had some potential. Neither Explorist 100 nor any of the entire Triton line ever sold enough to demand attention from the interop market (that's us) so they're just kinda of dangling in product history. Teetering on the edge of bankruptcy surely had a substantial cost on their spirit and metal model. It was surely difficult to gain any internal traction with the distraction of knowing if your paycheck was going to bounce. They weren't, however, totally undeserved. Yes, the rather non-gentlemanly references to them being bought and sold frequently were legendary. ![]()
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