Not sure my thumb can fit on that screen for when I want to pinch-zoom. I'm impressed that it can get a WAAS signal through those unshielded wires, though.
Are the calculations even valid in this century? LOL I have never seen one of those. Is that the first electronic version to come out after the wheel?
Cool link. I still have a TI-59 someplace.IDK but this site says:
"If we trace back the Aircraft Navigation Computers back to their roots we locate two different approaches:
Simple models introduced around 1980 like the Jeppesen Sanderson avstar or the prostar based on scientific calculators and more complex products like the USMC HARRIER based on programmable calculators.
This OCW-1401 started already in the year 1978 a third approach: Powerful Navigation and nothing else! Later products like the Navtronic Explorer (1983) and the Jeppesen Sanderson Techstar (introduced 1992) continued these kind of products."
IIRC, there was a module you could drop into the back of a TI58 or TI59 that contained aviation programs. I think I still have my old 58 somewhere, but I never had the aviation module.
IIRC, there was a module you could drop into the back of a TI58 or TI59 that contained aviation programs. I think I still have my old 58 somewhere, but I never had the aviation module.