I am trying to resurrect an old split beam system. The original system ran in DOS off of a select few Toshiba and other laptops. They still work, but run in WIN95 without USB ports that would make data transfer for processing etc. easier, plus they look pretty unscientific. Has anyone developed newer software for data acquisition that can be used with these old acoustic systems?
Dear Kyle,
I have asked Dr Helge Balk about that in the past. They have posted a quick recipe in there page (http://tid.uio.no/~hbalk/sonar4_5/index.htm), which you find below.
We still haven't tried it, so please if you succeed, I will appreciate to have your comments.
best regads,
Gustavo
How to run EP500 on a windows XP computer with 100 GB hard disks or more
We have been running our EY500 with various PC's with both win98 and win xp and we have helped other doing the same. This enables the use of multiple large disks. E.g. three 200GB disks
• Start by uninstalling everything.
Then
• Install DOS 7. (You can produce a DOS floppy disk on a win98 PC with FDISK.exe)
• Partition your C-disk so that the C-partition is no more than 2GB. D-partition can be the rest of the disc.
• Install EY500 software ver. 5.3.3 or newer
• Install windows (98 or XP. we have not tested win 2000, but it will probably work as well)
Remember to use FAT32 file system.
This should be it. If you run into any problems please contact me or rather our IT expert Ragnar: email [email protected] . I will anyway have to ask him since he is the expert that developed the procedure.
Dr .H.Balk 10.03.2005
You might use GNU-software under DOS, which is execptionally good and stable, see for example http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
I used it for a number of real time-projects in the field of underwater acoustics, industrial acoustics (gas flowmeasurements) and for directional measuring of aircraft noise, see further http://www.roosnek.nl
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