My guess is that most of the current crop of programs
written for Pocket PC OS could be ported to a Tablet
PC pretty easily -- that would be a start.

As a general case you'd just need a computer with a
bright color display and a serial port to communicate
with the GPS/logger. If it's a vanilla Wintel system
then current software might do. If you want to do something
like run on Linux, then you need a major rewrite or
new software altogether. Possible, but a bigger challenge.

Getting a big display bright enough to see in direct
sunlight without running the battery down might be
the biggest challenge - just try taking you laptop
outside on a sunny day as an experiment.


At 23:54 22 February 2004, Kilo Charlie wrote:
Well I would hope that sometime soon these screens
would be available. The
real question is whether or not the manufacturers that
currently sell the
units (CAI, Ilec, etc) would support this type of system.
There would have
to be some agreement upon the hardware part of it wouldn't
there? I guess
that it did happen with VHS and DVD's but not without
a few outliers such as
Sony's beta. With so little money in this industry
we should just be
thankful that we have nice toys to choose from currently
but the small
displays have become a limiting factor. Also I'm tainted
after having seen
one of the new Garmin (1000?) setups in a Gulfstream
I went through a few
weeks ago.

Casey Lenox
KC
Phoenix