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THE 4050 SERIES VOL.6 NO.2
APPLICATIONS LIBRARY NEWSLETTER SUMMER 1982
Tekniques
COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE
Graphics Improves Efficiency
Tekniques of Plastic Pipes Design
In This Issue by William Third
Graphics Improves Efficiency of Plastic
Pipes Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2
Marine Engineers Study Vibration in
Great Lakes Ore Carriers with 4052 and
FFfROM ......................... 4
GPIB Enhancement ROM Pack Provides
Greater Control of the Bus. . . . . . . . . . .. 7
Expanded Character Set and Increased
Printing Speed Features of TEKTRONIX
4643 Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7
TEKTRONIX 4041 Optimized for
Instrument Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8
A Step Toward Greater Compatibility
on the GPID:
Tektronix Codes and Formats. . . . . . . . .. 9
GPID Facts and Functions ............ 9
Input/Output ....................... 9
4050 Series Graphic Systems Workshops
Scheduled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Editor's Note. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Programming Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11 lao lb.
Basic Bits ......................... 12
Figure I a. The Tektronix 4054 Desktop Graphic Computer.
4050 Series Applications Library
Programs ......................... 13 Figure lb. The Tektronix 4054 Desktop Graphic Computer connected to the 4956 Graphics Tablet
and 4662 Interactive Digital Plotter speeds design drafting at the Wavin drawing office in
Library Addresses .................. 16
Hardenberg, The Netherlands.
The little town of Hardenberg in rural Packard and IBM, the company chose Tek-
Overijssel, The Netherlands, seems an un- tronix equipment. Performance was a key
likely spot for industry. In fact, it is the site factor, but so was the fact that Tektronix
of a large, modern factory making products could offer a complete system, thus elimi-
of plastic. nating compatibility problems and giving a
better service support position.
The factory, part of the Wavin Group, was
brought into existence in the 1950's as a The system consists of a Tektronix 4054
result of the provincial water authority's Desktop Computer graphics terminal, a 4956
search for new pipe material. Since then the Graphics Tablet, and a 4662 Interactive
factory, and company, have expanded con- Digital Plotter.
siderably. Although the production of pipes
and pipe networks remains an important "Eighty percent of the glass fiber rein-
TEKniques, the 4050 Series Applications Li- forced epoxy pipe production (Wavistrong)
brary Newsletter, is published by the Infor- part of the activities, the product range is
mation Display Division of Tektronix, Inc., now much wider, and includes plastic crates is exported to overseas markets, often in
Group 451, P.O. Box 500, Beaverton, Oregon and film products like the familiar plastic remote locations. Thus, there is a high
97077. It is distributed to TEKTRONIX 4050
"vuilniszakken" or garbage bags. degree of preassembly of pipes and fittings
Series users and members of the 4050 Series to minimize work in harsh environments,"
Applications Library.
Part of the reason for the company's said Jan Carel Jansen Klomp, who headed
Publishing Manager Ken Cramer growth, perhaps, has been its openness to the automation project. He continued, "We
Managing Editor Patricia Kelley new developments. It has a large research deal with two kinds of drawings: an iso-
Technical Editor Dan Taylor facility and a well established 3D-strong metric drawing from the client, and the
Graphic Design John Ellis computer center serving the whole Dutch usual two-dimensional drawings for the fac-
Circulation Rory Gugliotta
Typesetting Jean Bunker
organization. One of the computer center's tory from which they make the pipe assem-
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