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To: ManyMoose who wrote (3241)	3/10/2006 12:04:48 AM
From: GPS Info	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3506

Hey Moose, I was visiting Anchorage and Seward during a summer many moons ago, and I kept thinking to myself “I really don’t want to be here in the winter.” It was beautiful there and I’ve try to drum up some courage to go back in late fall to see the aurora borealis. I haven’t yet. I’m guessing that your survey covered all of Kodiak Island and a good portion of the peninsula as well. That ship looks like it could be fun in the summer, but not so fun in a winter’s storm. With these few post, I started musing over Trimble and I remember a story that was probably apocryphal by the time that I’d heard it – a few years after the timeline of the story. Since this is the only one I know, here it is. Trimble was developing a hand-held receiver for the military just before Desert Storm in 1990. It was meant to be ruggedized to military specifications. When the engineers at Trimble finished a prototype, the CEO at the time, Charles Trimble, turn on the receiver in front of the entire engineering team and checked to make sure that the receiver powered up properly, and he then immediately threw it against a wall. The receiver broke apart, and said something like “that’s a good start, but you need to make it tougher.” The engineers went back to work and when they were done, Trimble tried the same stunt. This time the receiver didn’t break apart, but the front panel display died. The engineers went back for the third time and after it was thrown against the wall, the receiver was still functioned properly. At this point Trimble says “OK, we can ship.”