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Seebeckwerft Receives $38.9-Million Order

To Build Rail Ferry

Seebeckwerft of Bremerhaven,

West Germany, recently received a

DM65-million ($38.9-million) order from the Railship Group to build a 10,000-dwt rail/freight ferry. She is the third ferry of this type to be ordered by Railship from Seebeck- werft over the last few years.

The vessel, the Railship III, which is expected to be delivered in Febru- ary 1990, will be powered by two

Wartsila Diesel 9R46 engines rated at 8,145 kw at 450 rpm and will have two auxiliary 4R32 Wartsila diesel engines which produce 1,620 kw.

The ferry will be about 622 feet long, with a molded breadth of 71 feet and service draft of 19 feet. She will be equipped with about 2,000 meters of rail track on three decks and will be of similar design as Rail- ship II, which was built by Seebeck- werft and delivered in 1984 to the

Railship Group. The lower decks of the vessel will be designed for car- riage of dangerous cargoes.

The ferry will be used for service between Travemunde, West Germa- ny, and Hanko, Finland.

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GE Wins $32.3-Million

Addition To Navy Contract

A $32.3-million addition to a

Navy contract was recently an- nounced by General Electric Co.

The original contract was for Tri- dent submarine communications equipment.

Autodata Division Of

Acurex Expands Data

Acquisition Capabilities

The MDAS 7000 Data Acquisi- tion System, recently acquired by the Autodata Division of Acurex

Corporation from TransEra Corpo- ration of Provo, Utah, combines high-speed acquisition rates, large channel capacity, and extensive pro- cess analysis capability at an afford- able price.

The MDAS 7000 is highly mod- ular and can be configured for al- most any application. There are over 30 I/O cards that include stan- dard analog and digital plus anti- aliasing, thermocouple, RTD, bridge, relay outputs and stepper motor control. There are three stan- dard communication interfaces, RS- 232, RS-422 and GPIB (IEEE-488).

Using the Motorola 68000 M pro- cessor, operating at 10 mHz, and a high-speed D/A converter, scanning speeds of 200,000 samples/sec are possible, with a single channel burst mode of 625,000 samples/second.

The MDAS 7000 offers disk and tape drive options that store ac- quired data directly in a streaming mode. This allows uninterrupted ac- quisition of large quantities of data

Circle 304 on Reader Service Card •>- at the fastest possible rates. The on- board mass storage of data can be in the form of DOS compatible floppy disks, up to 80 megabytes of hard disk, and/or digital tape. Two

MBytes of on-board RAM is also available. The raw or reduced data can be directly sent to a graphic dis- play, plotter or host computer.

A powerful software language,

TBASIC, is available to simplify data manipulation and signal analy- sis. This special engineering BASIC was developed for MDAS and is especially useful in developing cus- tom application software. TBASIC offers extensive graphic routines and computational capabilities to make easy work of data analysis.

TB ASIC's integrated GPIB syntax makes intelligent instrument con- trol easy. It also supports all the popular 3rd party IEEE-488 con- troller cards.

The addition of this product line expands Autodata's current data ac- quisition capabilities into industrial testing laboratories as well as auto- motive, aerospace, and research testing environments.

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