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To: techdiver@opal.com
Subject: Re: Computers versus tables
From: Scot Anderson <pp000082@in*.co*>
Cc: story@be*.es*.sg*.co*
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 94 10:17:19 PDT
I'm working on that one.  I'll be prepping it for my dives this weekend,
so I'll try then.


>Scot Anderson writes:
>> 
>:
>> >From Cochran, through the local dive shop where I teach.  The dive
>> profile information is a graph of your dive, in feet, sampled as you
>> set it through the computer interface.  Superimposed on the graph is
>> another curve, which can be, for example, air consumption, ascent
>> rate and more. Also, it keeps a boat-load of details, everything from
>> max/average depths, times, dates, all of it.  Even battery voltages
>> during the dive.   This is very important, by the way, because if it 
>> drops off the thing will shut off.  Since I went to a camera shop and
>> picked up about 20 bucks worth of batteries, I've had no problem at all.
>> Gotta see it to believe it.  I work with computers for a living, and I'm
>> impressed.  I can even annotate dives with extra information to accompany
>> the detailed tracing.
>
>Can you get the actual profile data out of their software and into
>some sort of text file, or is it stuck inside their application?
>
>Dave

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