A 6 channel GPS receiver from 1993

It's a bit on the side, but I remember my father telling me that the PCB's he sold to the Eastern Bloc were often adorned with microscopic greetings in Cyrillic, though the Russian spelling was often pretty bad.

Just like now, the Soviet Union was under heavy sanctions, and they weren't allowed to receive the latest computer tech. The various companies had ways around this, though, and the saying was that they'd purposefully design their boards so that Russian engineers could "tamper" with them in order to achieve higher than allowed clock speeds.

Anyway this cute board just made me think of that, so thought I'd share it.

Re: A 6 channel GPS receiver from 1993

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Post by secondcoming » Sat, Nov 04, 2023, 12:51 PM UTC

kebman wrote: post #7

It's a bit on the side, but I remember my father telling me that the PCB's he sold to the Eastern Bloc were often adorned with microscopic greetings in Cyrillic, though the Russian spelling was often pretty bad. Just like now, the Soviet Union was under heavy sanctions, and they weren't allowed to receive the latest computer tech. The various companies had ways around this, though, and the saying was that they'd purp…

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Re: A 6 channel GPS receiver from 1993

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Post by agumonkey » Sat, Nov 04, 2023, 1:04 PM UTC

dan-robertson wrote: post #4

More on gps: https://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/navsats/theory.html

archived link for image links seem dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060711045257/https://lea.hamra...

Re: A 6 channel GPS receiver from 1993

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Post by ck2 » Sat, Nov 04, 2023, 1:32 PM UTC

Garmin had the 100 series in 1990

Neat history of GPS units

http://retro-gps.info/page33/index.html

But what's really interesting is the first GPS watch, the Forerunner 101 in 2003

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/231