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In this Issue:
"Just to let you know that I appreciate
the newsletter. It is short, direct and concerned with more than
just pushing EPC products. And I actually do like to hear about
the EPC product developments. So, thanks and keep it up."
J. Grant Blackington, Chief Engineer
Seafloor Surveys International, Inc.
Seattle, WA
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Orders for the HSP-100 have been burning up the
EPC Sales Department. EPC has shipped or accepted orders for no
less than seven units over the last 3-4 weeks. Some of the recent
customers include IFREMER (Brest, France), AUSS for two units (Cataumet,
MA), Fugro West (Ventura, CA), Laurel Industries (San Jose, CA),
NAIC (Wright Patterson AFB), and Benthos Inc. (No. Falmouth, MA).
The high-speed, low-cost HSP-100 is the perfect gray scale printer
for simple playback.
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Already the most integrated continuous printer
in the industry, the GSP-1086 Series recently concluded additional
system interfacing. Utilizing the EPC Windows Developers Tool Kit,
Knudsen Engineering (Ontario, Canada) developed support into their
Windows applications to their 320 B/R echosounder (as well as their
other models) for the GSP-1086. The testing climaxed with a purchase
order form the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. http://www.knudsenengineering.com
Oceanic Imaging Consultants (Honolulu, HI) now
has a driver from its acquisition and processing system , GeoDAS,
for WIN 98 and NT and 2000 to the GSP-1086. Users can either print
in real time, or use GeoDAS-Desktop and the 1086 as a complete playback
package, and drive it from a laptop/or personal 98 machine. http://www.oic.com
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EPC has sent a formal protest to the Naval Oceanographic
Office (Stennis Space Center, MS). Over the span of four years,
EPC provided over twenty Model 9800 and Model 9802 Thermal Graphic
Recorders to the Navy for use aboard the T-AGS Oceanographic Research
Vessels. The Model 9800 Series TGRs are used primarily as the hard
copy output to the ODEC Bathy 2000P sub bottom profiler.
In the latest contract for the T-AGS vessels,
NAVOCEANO sole-sourced an order for three Model TDU-2000F. The reason
given for the sole source justification was the printers needed
to be interfaced to the ODEC Bathy 2000W (the new Windows version
of the ODEC Bathy 2000P). Why wasn't the 9800 and 9802 interfaced
to the new software? Simple, the TDU-2000F printers are manufactured
by ODEC.
Incredibly, the Navy is convinced to replace all
of the Model 9800 Series TGRs (several hundred thousand dollars
worth) with new ODEC TDU-2000F (several more hundred thousand dollars).
All because a manufacturer will not provide a printer driver that
has already been provided and is typically provided FREE of charge.
Should one be outraged? As a tax payer, you bet.
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Computer Devices Canada (Ottawa, Canada) has placed
an order for four Model 9206 Thermal Graphic Recorders. The units
are the first "wide-bed" or 20" TGRs to feature the
new high speed parallel interface. The units are to be used with
the CDC system with final customer being the Royal Australian Air
Force.
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EPC will be exhibiting the new MP-1086 at the
Oceans 2000 Conference in Providence, RI September 11-14, 2000.
EPC will be exhibiting in Booth # 524 with local sales representative,
Electronic Sales of New England. EPC skipped the Undersea Exploration
Conference in San Diego, CA. EPC reported in a previous newsletter
(VOL. 2 NO. 16) that last years Undersea show in Oregon was an "unmitigated
disaster". Evidently, this years show was even worse, if thats
possible. More than one exhibitor declared it as "the worst
ever" and many companies pulled their stakes mid-week and left
the show. Ouch.
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EPC is pleased to announce an increase in our
web site activity. For the month of June, 2000 the EPC Web Site
received 6196 Hits, 2548 Accesses, Averaged 85 Accesses /Day and
the Average Access viewed 3.75 pages. Number of hits can often be
misleading. A page with a multiple images counts as more than one
hit. Accesses include internal or Local Access (EPC), as well as
World Access. Average Access (3.75) also counts multiple images.
The average of 85 visitors a day is impressive, however.
The EPC Monthly has reached over a thousand subscribers
making it the most deleted newsletter in the industry!
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Next Issue: August 25, 2000
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