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Back in town, we popped in to the Whyte Museum to have a look at their superb gallery of photos taken in the Rockies. Whilst exploring the rest of the museum, we came across this cabinet, which contained some of the kit they used to use to survey the mountains.
The octagonal device on the far right is about nine inches across and four inches thick and is a GPS receiver. You know, like the ones that are now embedded in phones and watches. The device on the left, which is about the size of a stack of half-a-dozen iPads, is the device used to collect the data from the GPS receiver! It can't actually tell you where you are. It just collects the data, which has to be sent away to be processed.
I think the most amazing thing about this kit is that it's from 1995!!!!! OMG!
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