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KorEXO v2 is optimized for computers and tablets running Windows OS. The software is included on a USB flash drive that ships with all new EXO Systems. Updates to KorEXO Software are downloaded from the YSI website, along with the latest instrument firmware.
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If you've experienced problems with automatically downloading the latest firmware versions for your EXO equipment using KOR Software, you can attempt a manual update using this firmware package. This will update the EXO Sonde to version 1.0.83.
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I am in this exact situation. We are currently using ExtremeDNC (not compatible with windows 7). We are in the process of upgrading to predator. We use that with NcPlot for program editing. We also looked at PCDNC and Factory Wiz. I am not 100% sure where they come in at for price as I was not a part of the financial part of this project.
I also saw SecureCRT (http:/ Opens a new window/www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/windows.html Opens a new window) mentioned elsewhere. It claims ease of use but I'm uncertain how comparable the transfer interface is to Procomm. Has anyone used it?
1. Half of the academic historians in the US have a powerful computer on their desks. Many graduate students have one, or have convenient access. The analogy is the Model T Ford-- people own a wonderful machine, but use it only to drive to church on Sunday (i.e. for basic word processing). Our main goal is to get historians to use their equipment for communications. 2. We are organizing a team of historians at the University of Illinois, Chicago, that is planning to assist the history profession to go on-line and make use of the remarkable advances in computers in recent years. H-Net will comprise two parts. 3. The first will be an electronic "bulletin board" system open free to all historians in the US--and across the world. Technically, H-Net will operate in two modes ("Internet" and direct telephone access), such that any historian with a personal computer (IBM compatible or Apple Mac) and a modem can connect to it (also a "dumb" terminal linked to campus computer). Most will connect through their campus computer system via Internet. Others can phone us long-distance. (We will have an 800 number for first sign-on.) a) H-Net will primarity operate as a bulletin board system, using the widely-used "Wildcat" software. It will have Listserv, Fileserve, Gopher and FTP services (these are ways to disseminate files electronically.) 4. The second part of H-Net will be a hands-on training program to show historians how to use their PCs more effectively. The training will be provided in all-day sessions at host universities (probably 4-5 a year) and formal sessions at conventions like the American Historical Association (AHA), Organization of American Historians (OAH), and Southern Historical Association (SHA) (probably 2-3 /year). a) We will show historians how to use Bitnet to communicate to each other--the "poor academic's fax." Bitnet messages tend to be much more frequent, shorter, and less formal than written letters or telephone calls. 5. The logic of H-Net is that a valuable service can be performed by working through an established discipline, and its departments and associations. The core target is college and university history departments in the US, Canada--and anywhere else interested, plus the established associations like the AHA, OAH and SHA. a) Eventually, we will invite the established area/chronology groups: Medieval, Reformation, British, Asian, African, French, Spanish, Latin America, World War II, US: Early Republic, Gilded Age, Afro-American, Western, etc. b) also the established topics/methods groups: Catholic, Church, Film, Foreign Relations, Lesbian/Gay Military, Oral, Peace, Public, Science, Social Science, Urban, Women, World, etc. 6. Based on my experience running 11 summer institutes in the new social history and quantitative methods at the Newberry Library, and 12 shorter mini-institutes, I estimate from 200 to 300 historians a year will participate (including public historians and graduate students.) Institutions will be asked to pay a modest registration fee. NEH will be asked to cover 80% of the costs, with the remainder coming from the U of Illinois and the participants. 7. The national H-Net bulletin board will have a number of "doors" that provide a variety of services. a) Useful and timely information will be posted, with a very short turnaround time (one day), compared to the many weeks needed for printed matter. We will work with groups to put their newsletters on-line. (If a group wishes, access to its newsletter can be restricted to its members only.) Conferences and conventions will be announced; interested parties can contact the organizers directly; preliminary and final programs can be posted. The printed journals will not go on-line. 1) The AHA Job Register will be on-line, for AHA members only. b) N-Net will set up (free) private meeting "rooms" for groups of historians, such as program committees, conference organizers, or editorial boards, so they can communicate easily and privately with one another. c) We will invite volunteers (historians from across the country, or the world) to moderate the various doors. Their role will be to keep a steady flow of material going out, and to encourage the right people to enter into conversations. d) There are already several dozen Bitnet-based history conferences (several each in ancient and medieval, Russian, Chinese, western Europe, US, women, and methodology). These groups are international, with strong representation from Canada and western Europe. The East Europeans are just now linking up to Bitnet; Brazil is the first Third World country to become active. We will publicize these groups and show historians how to join. We will provide technical help for anyone who wants to start a new history conference. We probably will sponsor some ourselves, especially regarding methodology, and reviews of software. Messages can be in any language (but will be limited to ascii characters). e) One door will lead to course syllabi, outlines and handouts donated by teachers. We will show users how to download them into their own word processors. We will have the capability of storing and forwarding gif graphics files (maps, graphs, charts, overhead transparencies) as well as text. f) As interest grows, rather specialized doors can be opened. One might be a service for users of a major textbook in Western Civ, allowing instructors and teaching assistants around the country to exchange ideas, handouts, tests, and helpful hints. g) Doors will lead to bibliographies donated by historians. (At present, there are few good ways to publish the bibliographies historians lovingly compile.) h) The major new source we will create is a combined retrospective index to the major history journals. Editors spend a great deal of effort to compile highly sophisticated indexes of their journals--indexes that go far beyond authors and titles. We will obtain the diskettes used in recent years, and scan the printed indexes of other years. The result will be a large on-line source that will be accessed by a key word search. Students and scholars will use to gain much better access to the contents of the major history journals. i) There are many electronic texts, CD-ROMs and finding aids becoming available. Our H-Net board will tell historians about them, and exchange tips on how to use them. j) Especially vital are library catalogues (including the major universities) which are now available free to people who know how to use Internet. The CARL service (guide to recent articles) is open (for those who know how to access it.) Other services like RLIN, OCLC and the OED are restricted. Many historians have access to the latter through their campus computer center or library, but do not know how to use them. We will show how to download information into their word processing program, and (better) how to load them into bibliography textbases, like ProCite. These sources are the domain of campus libraries; our job will be to make sure historians know how to interact with librarians. 8. Undergraduate teaching is an area that is poorly served by the printed journals. National and local on-line boards can provide a variety of services. a) Nationally, H-Net will set up discussion groups for professors and teaching assistants who teach the large survey courses. Topics of discussion will include textbooks, supplementary books, publishers' supplementary materials (test banks, transparencies, study guides, teacher's guides), helps and hints on discussion sections, and anything else teachers wish to discuss. Volunteers will moderate these groups. b) We will set up a model "departmental" board here at UIC, where faculty can communicate with students. Most of our students are commuters--and many of our faculty work at home--suggesting that email may be a good solution to the problem of communicating with each other. The University of Kansas History department is the first (and only) departmental model. c) We will show departments how to set up their own local boards for their large courses. One could be for students to interact with their instructors--for example, by asking questions or adding follow-up comments, or seeking help. Another could be restricted to the professor and the TAs, allowing them to discuss the course privately on a day to day basis. d) Undergraduate and graduate seminar-style courses can set up their own local boards. Students can post their papers and other students, and the professor, can make suggestions and critiques. Substantive discussions can follow up a class meeting. The professor can use access to Internet sources to provide exact bibliographic suggestions to students writing papers. 9. The whole project will be operated as a model that can be emulated in other disciplines. We will keep logs and "how-we-did-it" guides, and will be delighted to help anyone with their technical questions. a) The American Philosophy Association sponsors an excellent bulletin board that we will monitor and emulate. It is basically a newsletter service; entry is open, but it is not possible to download files. H-Net will have file download through the Wildcat BBS software, and through ftp over Internet. b) "HUMANIST" is an excellent discussion group, with very well edited messages. It has about a thousand subscribers, & a few dozen regular contributors, but disappointingly little history presence. We will monitor HUMANIST (and other lists) and cross list good items. 10. History is a large and complex field, with vital links beyond academic history departments. For example, history has close relations with archives, state historical societies, museums and rare book libraries (among others) and with scholars around the globe. Some outside groups, like genealogy and local history societies, do important work in gathering and computerizing primary data. Problem: how does H-Net link up with these other organizations? 11. H-Net will be run from the History department of the University of Illinois, Chicago. A national council will set policy, a local council will direct operations and coordinate with campus entities like the History department, the Library, and the Computer Center. H-Net will be entirely non-political. The doors and conferences will be moderated (by us and especially by volunteers around the country) to provide a smooth flow of information to the users and to avoid overloading their e-mailboxes with irrelevant material. (Our model: HUMANIST.) a) Volunteers are out there. The knack of keeping discussion groups focused on important issues is essentially a teaching skill; experts in the discipline know who to ask to contribute. b) The H-Net board will be a hybrid system operating simultaneously on PC hardware and WIldcat software (to be purchased by grant) and also on Internet/Bitnet through the UIC Computer Center. 12. One ideological commitment of ours: we are keen on broadening the access opportunities of all historians, especially those at smaller schools and historical societies. We will include both the IBM-compatible and the Apple tribes. Historians who do not have their own PCs can obtain access through departmental or campus machines (according to the newest Peterson Guide, every college in the country has PCs.) We will "give away" (in the form of shareware) the necessary software (like the Procomm terminal program.) a) Internet and Bitnet have several thousand nodes (mostly university computer centers) and over a half million users (mostly in the sciences). The planned "NREN" system will be even more elaborate and will allow many more users to connect (including high schools). It will be the interstate highway system of the 21st century. b) Nationwide, colleges are facing a budget crunch. According to recent EDUCOM survey, half plan to cut back the training and services they offer their faculty. History departments will be especially hard hit, because few have computer experts who keep up with fast-breaking innovations. 13. We have had a good deal of experience with computers and software, and we enjoy keeping abreast of the newest innovations. Kelly Richter and Wendy Plotkin are very talented graduate students in history, and have a remarkable background in hardware and software. Plotkin, for example, is giving papers at both the Social Science History Association and the American Historical Association conventions this fall on her analysis of how historians and publishers are dealing with electronic texts. They will handle day-to-day operations, and assist me in the training programs. I will be project director. 14. Our first priority (spring 1993) will be to establish a bulletin board system for the U of Illinois Chicago History Department. It will operate as a Listserv (with Fileserv and FTP services as well). As demand increases, we will split into a general List (for department announcements), and specialized lists (for the graduate students, for example). We will individually train faculty and graduate students in the necessary email technique, and will assist faculty in setting up specialized lists for their courses. 15. H-Net has been endorsed by the AHA (Professional Division and Research Division), the Southern Historical Association, and the Organization of American Historians. ACLS has expressed support--it considers H-Net an ambitious project that would put history well ahead of other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. (Scientists and engineers dominate Internet now.) We will work with major history organizations to reach their members (via conventions, journal, newsletter, membership directory), and upload newsletter-type information generated by the organizations. 16. We have a five year time horizon. The technology is changing so fast that it would be unwise to predict much longer than that. Our UIC team does not expect to spend more than five years on the project. If H-Net fails to catch on, we will confess we misjudged historians and move on to something else. If, as we expect, it does prove successful, it will be self liquidating. We will have trained enough departmental "gurus" around the country that they can show their colleagues and students how to go forward. The history conventions will have regular sessions on the newest technology. The various bulletin boards and doors will be taken over by volunteers, who will use their own university facilities to operate the services. 17. Two schools have begun discussions about being a test site early next year. Department chairs make the point that they would be in a stronger position if they could show their deans that historians are using their fancy new hardware in creative fashion. While teaching at West Point (where every instructor and cadet has a PC), I gave out assignments and outlines, held "office hours" and collected "papers," all by electronic mail. My guess is that historians are becoming increasingly curious about where their Model T might take them on the new interstates, and how fast.
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