Shawn: Sorry to inform you, but you're guess is way off!

We use it for signal processing running custom-written FORTRAN routines.

Basically, we are recording intra-muscluar electrical signals via little wires that we put into muscle fibers utilizing a PC-based data acquisition system. We then transfer the data over to the VAX, run the analysis routine (about 10-15 hours per 10 seconds of data), have students inspect the data visually on the VAX (via remote PC terminal), and refine the analysis.

We also have a group in New Your City and one in Israel do the same thing remotely since it's the last unit alive (apart from the broken tape drive [Mad] ).

BTW, it is a mission-critical system, though, since half of our research is based on this analysis. However, we're currently rewriting everyhting using neural networks and artificial intelligence approaches.

[ 20. November 2002, 17:53: Message edited by: sealeopard ]
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