Re: FACSCAN -> PC
Leon Martin (martin@cobra.path.monash.edu.au)
Thu, 17 Jun 1993 11:15:23 +1000
On Nick Viner's questions:
>Does anyone have
>experience with the Verity package and if so is the software significantly
>better than the BD solution? Does anyone else have other suggestions or
>solutions?
>
I know one person here who is using Verity's WHPPC package and is very
happy with it. It is particularly nice as the HP is left in "server mode"
and the data is manipulated from a Windows program at the IBM end. You can
browse the HP's volumes/directories, tranfer files etc etc. As far as I
know, it is at least as fast as ethernet transfers; maybe faster. Make sure
you check with Verity about the cards. Things may have changed, but early
on only a few cards worked with WHPPC.
>
>1) We have a demo of Winlist which looks OK - can anyone reccommend it?
>
I know a few people here in Australia are using Winlist and, once again,
the comments I've heard are good.
>
>2) We were thinking of using a 20 Mb floptical drive for storage which I
>don't remember being discussed in the recent archiving debate. The disks
>are cheaper than Bernoulli's; ~$25 which is quite reasonable on a
>$-per-Mb basis and the drives are reducing in price. Access times are
>~65mS, slow but probably not as slow as tape, and transfer rates are
>reasonable. 20 Mb just seems a convenient size for storing cytometry files
>- anyone any comments?
>
I think I would find 20Mb a bit small for storing flow files!
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