[AG-TECH] Last minute equipment questions

[Ivan R. Judson]

Comments include:

1) Cables -- http://www.libertycable.com/  good cables, great service,
will put the pheonix on for you :-)
2) Consider a different 4 headed card, even if it's not in the spec.
The Matrox cards are so far behind in technology it's scary.  Nvidia
makes a 4 headed card for AGP.  Haven't played with it but hey, why not
have *some* fun ;-)
3) Go with the XAP800, TH2, more mics, then you can run G-Ware on the
display computer and control them all from the display.  You can
consider whether to buy the control computer at all then.
4) My stack overflowed...sorry

--Ivan

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
Behalf Of Mike Daw
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 11:03 AM
To: 'Bryan Kirkendall'; ag-tech at accessgrid.org
Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Last minute equipment questions


The one thing I'd say is that, unless your room is really small, I'd go
for the Gentner 800 rather than 400 - even if you only buy 4 mics
initially. We'd love to have more flexibility with microphones and 4
just isn't enough.

--Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> Behalf Of Bryan Kirkendall
> Sent: 23 June 2002 05:14
> To: ag-tech at accessgrid.org
> Subject: [AG-TECH] Last minute equipment questions
>
>
> First off, I would like to thank all of you who have helped me out 
> with my questions these past few weeks.  I've now gotten together a 
> list of everything I think I need to put together my node, but both
> my supervisor
> and I thought it would be a good idea to run it by you guys
> first, just to
> make sure I haven't forgotten anything.  I've posted a copy
> of my equip
> list at http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~kirk5801/ag , if anybody
> has the time
> and inclination to check it out, I'd greatly appreciate it.  The first
> file is a part-by-part list of what'll be put in each of the
> 4 computers,
> the second is a list of the other various equipment I need.
> (Quick note -
> I haven't gotten a final count on how many microphones the
> room is going
> to need, hence the question marks there, and that number
> will, of course,
> determine which Gentner I'll need).
>
> On a related note, I've recently been contacted by a company called 
> Imprint Systems, who offer a 'one-stop shop' for AGN purchases, taking

> a single PO for the whole shebang.  (Website at ag.imprintsystems.com)
> We're looking into this as an alternative to buying
> everything seperately,
> depending on how pricing works out.  Have any of you had any
> experience
> with buying from this company you'd like to share?
>
> Sorry for being a bit long-winded there.  ^^;;  Thanks in advance.
>
> -------------------------------
> Bryan J. Kirkendall
> AGN Administrator
> University of Idaho CompSci
> Moscow, ID 83844
> kirk5801 at cs.uidaho.edu
>
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