MediaTheque - Softwares/Sharewares

Data Grabber PC (1989)

• Authors: D. Ziegler & J. Kewekordes II
• Distributor: Nagawtis Software Research (1801 Gouldin Road, Oakland CA 94611, USA, phone: +1-510-339-3190)
• Price: US$ 140 for the PC version and US$ 68 for the Apple II version (including interface box)
• Installation requirements: printer or parallel port, any graphics card, virtually no memory requirement
• Material received: one 5.25" diskette with documentation
• Comments: `With the help of a Polaroid electrostatic transducer and the Texas Instruments sonar-ranging module, it allows distance measurements accurate to 1mm with a range of 1 to 9m at up to 173 samples per second.' An ultrasonic range-finder hardware required to test the s/w was not delivered. Its catalogue price is US$ 165.
• Reviewed: November 1993

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