I have an old laptop with MS Streets and Trips installed, attached to a
cheap eTrex.

It works well...it shows your position real time, and you can "chart" using
the draw function from the program, and make waypoints where ever you want.

I like it a lot.

--
-Netsock

"It's just about going fast...that's all..."
http://home.insight.rr.com/cgreen/
"Lloyd Sumpter" wrote in message
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On Sat, 22 May 2004 01:39:20 +0000, RGrew176 wrote:

During the winter I purchased a Dell laptop. I have a Garmin GPSMAP 230
on the
boat and supposedly you can interface the two with the correct adaptors.
Has
anyone interfaced their GPS and laptop and if so what were the results?

Thanks.

I've also done this for years (wrote a few programs to decode the
NMEA...), but
I've always found my old laptop was virtualy impossible to read in
sunlight. Are
new ones better?

Lloyd Sumpter
"Far Cove" Catalina 36