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sbisson ([personal profile] sbisson) wrote2008-05-07 05:01 pm
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RetroGPS



A 1927 navigation device. Scroll the map through the viewer to guide you on any of 20 or so pre-set routes.

Yes, I know, it's a link to the Daily Mail. And from a Guardianista like me, too. Sorry...

[identity profile] sharikkamur.livejournal.com 2008-05-07 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a marvellous little thing.

Even in the relatively recent past (1980s) you used to be able to phone the AA, tell them your start and end points and any intermediate stops and they would send you a long thin map in the same basic format - the size and shape of a folded OS map. We ordered one the first time my Mum drove me back to university from Liverpool to St. Andrews.