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Not I, Jim. While I can understand the fondness some folks have for them, I
can't see any reason to spend all that money on an old obsolete calculator
when a modern $35 obsolete Palm will do so much more. Or, a "pocket pc" in
the $300-500 range can be a complete PC. All kinds of nav software available
for both of course.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Thompson" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 4:23 AM
Subject: Re: Navigational computers


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Fiene on October 23, 2004 4:21 AM
> A friend has let me know that he's wanting to buy one of the following,
> as his brother has recommended it, as it's 'what all the merchant
> professionals use'.
> http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/tamaya_nc-77.html
> His brother's view is it's so easy to make a mistake manually  with CN
> and this makes it almost impossible.

Lisa, that's an old version of the classic Tamaya calculator.  As I recall
Jared (?) and others discussed its history as a USN version.  I don't know
whether what the disadvantages are of owning an old version of a CN
calculator, but the price certainly might be right.  The latest from Tamaya
is the NC-2100, US$900+:
http://www.sailgb.com/sshop/prod_info.asp?pid=12237
or
http://www.tamaya-technics.com/nc-2100.html
in Japanese.

See
http://www.starpath.com/catalog/accessories/starpilot/compare.pdf
for Starpath's comparison of current hand calculators dedicated to CN.

Jim

   

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