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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 9:16 pm 
My stepdaughter gave a GPS system to my husband. It's old, and I think the battery was dead. I charged it with my computer. I think it may be working now, but we aren't really sure. It's a Tom Tom One. Anyone familiar?
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Landileigh
Member
07-28-2002
| Friday, April 21, 2017 - 1:02 am
you might as well throw it away. They came out in 2004, and new maps have no way to be updated any longer. It is basically a paperweight. GPS systems are so much cheaper than they used to be when that came out! I paid almost $700, and now they come free on your phone!
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Friday, April 21, 2017 - 6:43 am
Painful but true how advances in technology turns expensive items into paperweights. I have the worst time forcing myself to throw stuff away that was once worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars. 
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Friday, April 21, 2017 - 7:44 am
I don't won't to think about what I paid for my first home computer. 1982 and it was an Apple IIe. Using an online inflation calculator it would be around $8,000 today! And that's only one of the many electronic gadgets I've bought over the years from my first "cell phone" that weighed like 10 pounds to my first compact disc player to that 400 pound must have 36" color television. All of them gone the way of recycle, donation, or stuffed away someplace in my attic.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, April 21, 2017 - 7:32 pm
Yep, it is worthless. I have a several generations later Tom Tom, and it is also worthless. We used my smart phone tonight to navigate our way to a hotel in Fort Lauderdale, and I barely know how to use the phone, let alone use it as a GPS. LOL.
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