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Old 27th August 2005, 08:45 PM   #5 (permalink)
Brad Salai
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Default Garmin Data Cards

Does is say for certain what format the cards are? If they are SD cards,
they are smaller than anything available nowadays, but since they came out 7
or 8 years ago, that might well be true. A 16 meg SD card only costs $20 or
so, that would be a big savings for us.

Brad

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> "Brad Salai" <bsalai@rochester.> writes:
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> > [...] I was just trying to find cards for less than the $130 each
> > that Garmin charges for them. If they are 256 meg SD cards, that is
> > way higher than they can be gotten for elsewhere. [...]

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> According to the Jeppesen Skybound USB card writer thingie,
> modern 430/530 data cards have a mere 4- or 8-MB capacity.
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> - FChE
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