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Technology Tops the Charts
16 Dec 2007
Just twenty years ago, in an era of tapes, magnetic disks and manufacturers extolling their latest solid state microprocessor-controlled wonders, we had data loggers doing 100 soundings a second and programmers writing real-time software for 16 and 32 bit desktop computers boasting 20MB memories, and out in the field, radio positioning was generally still the order of the day with Argo, Miniranger, Syledis, Trisponder and other line-of-sight systems widely used for any number of inshore and offshore applications.
