Anatomy Computer Control Room
Anatomy Computer Control Room:
In this picture, starting against the wall on the left, is the CD-ROM tower and the PowerMac 8150/110 file server. The CD tower provides 7 quad speed drives for network access of our commercial anatomy software. The file server itself runs At Ease, a menuing program, which provides students with easy access to software programs and maintains security on the file server.
Beside the smaller monitor of the 8150 file server, we have a pair of Internet file servers (the CPUs are located between their 17 inch monitors). Currently, this web site is located on a PowerMac 6150/66 file server equipped with the Apple Internet server solution kit. We will be moving this site soon to a PowerMac 8550/200 server, and we will be upgrading our server software to WebStar 2.0.
The other Internet file server is a PowerMac 7250/120 equipped with the Apple Internet server solution kit. This server houses the Arkansas Cancer Research Center Education web site.
Starting along the next countertop, we have a PowerMac 8500/120 equipped with 80 megs of RAM, a SCSI JackHammer PCI board, a 4 gigabyte Fast/wide drive and a 2 gig internal hard drive (along with external storage: 1.2 gig drive, 200 meg SyQuest, 230 meg magneto-optical drive, Yamaha 4X CD-R writer). We use this computer for a number of development tasks, such as video digitizing and burning CD-ROMs. Beside the 8500 is a stack of video devices. On the bottom is a SONY Beta/SP PAL videotape recorder/player. The black box above it is a Pioneer CLD-V2600 laserdisc player. Above that is a SONY S-VHS videotape recorder/player, and on top is a SONY video monitor. This stack of video equipment is used with the 8500 (or our other primary development computer, the 8100) primarily for video digitizing. Software used includes Avid VideoShop for video capture, Adobe Premiere and AfterEffects for video production, and Terran MovieCleaner Pro for video compression.
The printer located to the right of the video stack is an Epson Stylus Pro XL printer, which can print up to 11X17 inches. We use this printer to produce near-photographic quality (600 dpi) color prints of computer-labeled cross-sections. The black box located below the printer is the sound system for the gross anatomy labs. Since the gross labs are divisible by sliding partitions into three separate rooms, we have a sound system that can service each of the individual rooms created by the partitions, or service any room configuration created by using only one partition. During gross lab in the Fall semester, we typically play classical music for a pleasant background sound.
The last computer in the picture, whose monitor is clipped in the picture, is a PowerMac 8100/100 equipped with 50 megs of RAM and a 1 gig hard drive, with external storage including a 1.2 gig hard drive, a 200 meg SyQuest drive and a 230 magneto-optical drive. The computer is connected to a UMAX flatbed scanner with transparency adapter and a Polaroid SprintScan slide scanner. We use this computer for image input and manipulation, as well as software developemnt. For image production, software used includes Adobe Photoshop and Equilibrium DeBabelizer. For software development, HyperCard is the primary tool.
Not pictured is a Pentium 100 notebook computer equipped with CD drive and LAN PC card. This computer is used for Windows software development. Software used includes Asymetrix ToolBook.
