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From: fisher@banzai.DEC (Ed Fisher, DTN 381-2377)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Cateye Solar gets wet
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Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 12:02:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 19 12:02:53 1984
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Newsgroup : net.bicycle
From : BANZAI::FISHER
Organization : Digital Equipment Corp.
Subject: Re: computers, wonder lights, foldups

>Has anybody had any experience with the so-called bike computers?
>What features are good, what are useless, which have the best human
>interface, etc.?

One more comment on Cateye Solar.  I rode about 35 miles in the rain
Saturday. After 25 (some of it very heavy) the Cateye refused to
respond, no displays no reaction to buttons. My friend's Cateye
behaved erratically.  After several hours in a warm spot the Cateye
came back to life, a few beeps at a time.  The time of day clock
had lost about 9 hours and the distance meters did not record
about 7 miles. My biggest worry had been that it would have
forgotten to 2000+ miles and the "magic number" setting but that was
no problem.

Moral to story: Carry a baggy for your computer with your rain gear.

			Ed Fisher
			Merrimack, NH

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