Monthly Archives: May 2014

Commerical GPS Turns 25: How the Unwanted Military Tech Found Its True Calling

Here’s the fascinating – and heretofore untold – story behind the first consumer GPS handheld device, the GPS NAV 1000 from Magellan, which went on sale on May 25, 1989, posted here at Mashable.com.

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