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Re: Anyone want a Hewlett-Packard HP-41C navigation Pac?
From: James N Wilson
Date: 2012 Feb 1, 07:31 -0800
From: James N Wilson
Date: 2012 Feb 1, 07:31 -0800
Wayne:
I still use a 41CX, and would welcome the nav chip. I'll happily pay
postage.
I have a story to tell about using one. On the 1993 Transpac, (Transpacific
Yacht Race, from San Pedro to Honolulu), we had to determine positions
celestially as a qualification. I was on a Canadian navy training ship, so I
wasn't the navigator, but with everything done by GPS, the job was easy. The
navigator wanted my data for the sight, but I had written it on the plastic
sheet covering the chart, on which cadets contitually plotted our DR. When he
looked, it had been erased, as they did as we progressed. He panicked, until I
reminded him that it was still in the calculator, an HP41 with the nav chip. So
all came out fine.
Jim Wilson
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:20:00 -0500 Philip <philip.lange@albemarleweb.com>
writes:
I am forwarding this "Liveaboard" List post to Nav list members.
This is the contact info for the item:If anyone still uses an HP-41C hand-held programmable calculator and
From: Wayne <wandc@cox.net>
would like to have the small Navigation Pac plug-in (calculates variousRepeat - this is a forwarded note
nav stuff), let me know. Actually never been used. Also have the
instruction booklet.
No charge, unless you'd like to pay for the shipping after receipt -
probably a buck or two.
Wayne
He is making the offer.
From: Wayne <wandc@cox.net>
