Thread: Old School Electronics part two

Originally Posted by Cane Pole

Agreed. Too much hassle.

One thing about those units, I didn't turn mine on until I was in the close vicinity to something on the bottom I wanted a picture of. Turning it on and letting it run for the entire trip was never an option for me.

They were an expensive unit back in the day. We had one on our great lakes charter boat. When that got sold, it moved to our other boat. I remember stopping at an old Army/Navy Surplus store to buy paper.

We used to keep the roles of paper and date and time stamp them with wind, waves and weather. You could go back year after year and see where the fish were. In the fog you could use your old papers to compare bottom features and make it back to port.

I miss the noise they used to make. Bet I could still fall asleep to the noise they make!

I have a green box around here somewhere along with a ray jeff in a box.. thought I was cheating when I got my first super 30. Still think I could use one and do OK.

I still use an x15 mt that I bought when they first came out. Keep thinking bout getting a color graph but know this one so good, I'm not sure that would be a wise decision. What do you fellows think?

Originally Posted by jrc62

I still use an x15 mt that I bought when they first came out. Keep thinking bout getting a color graph but know this one so good, I'm not sure that would be a wise decision. What do you fellows think?

If it works for you no sense in getting something else. One thing I found as I got older, when I went to color made a big difference in being able to see it.

I spend mooniest on all sorts of fish stuff. I gotta spend money on something. My funeral is already paid for.

Used to have a LRG1510C even with a minimum 60' range I got great detail in 20 FOW.
I think I paid about $4 a roll for chart paper from my shop in the late 80's- then came the LCD Eagle Z-6000 ~ 82x32 pixels and a numeric keypad for any range with down to a 10' window... "hot stuff"....lol



Heck even my X70A had "music" built into it....lol

Originally Posted by sfw1960

Used to have a LRG1510C even with a minimum 60' range I got great detail in 20 FOW.
I think I paid about $4 a roll for chart paper from my shop in the late 80's- then came the LCD Eagle Z-6000 ~ 82x32 pixels and a numeric keypad for any range with down to a 10' window... "hot stuff"....lol




Heck even my X70A had "music" built into it....lol

Got one of those Z 6000's in the attic also. Those had a great picture I guess because of the small screen. I'm not real smart so I had to take the book with me to turn it on and off or change any settings. I remember having to punch a bunch of those numbers in sequence or at the same time to change things. Tecknolgy ahead of its time for back then.