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I have two Garmin GPS units on our boat. I like Garmin because of the incredible factory support a customer gets. I remember when the Y2K thing hit several years ago, owners of Magellan, Northstar, and Trimble, had to send their units back to the factory for an expensive reprogramming. Mind you that Trimble and Northstar cost thousands. My wife called Garmin at their 800 number and asked what we should do since our two units were down. The tech told her to save the waypoints on paper, and then gave her a key sequence she could enter into the unit. The tech also told her to leave the unit on after executing the key sequence and that the GPS would reeducate itself in about a half an hour. I dropped a Garmin 50 (1991 vintage) and sent it to Garmin. They replaced the case and programmed in their latest program.-That was all done at no charge. This spring I will need to replace the electronics on our boat. We plan to go all Garmin.
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