[DCrandall]

Check it out: http://www.perfsci.com/hardware. There is now a way to connect your Mac OS X to the real, physical world. The bTop-1 does this great economy and efficiency. Perfectly Scientific, Inc. has introduced its data acquisition/control designed specifically for Mac OS X---called bTop-1. bTop is an acronym for giving one's computer a laboratory benchtop, beyond the usual desktop. Also included are several example applications, a Cookbook and full source code on CD.

There is now a way to connect your Mac OS X to the real, physical world. And the bTop-1 can do so with great economy and efficiency. Perfectly Scientific, Inc. has introduced its data acquisition/control designed specifically for Mac OS X -- called bTop-1. bTop is an acronym for giving one's computer a laboratory benchtop, beyond the usual desktop. Also included are several example applications, a Cookbook and full source code on CD.

The software is designed to get the user up and going as soon as possible in developing lab applications. Download it for FREE at our Web site URL below. The bTop-1 board includes its own processor with dedicated RAM.

The bTop-1 is perhaps the most efficient means available for connecting Mac OS X to the real world. The bTop-1 includes a software "cookbook", helpful demos, and driver sources which will aid you in your laboratory interface projects.

The bTop-1---just like Mac OS X itself---is easy to use, and provides a good array of lab functions for $149.

We stress that bTop-1 is destined to fit into larger projects. For example, George Storm -- a Seattle, WA designer -- has developed a robot named "Chassis," with the linkage between Mac OS X and this robot being PSI's bTop-1. Storm has presented the "Chassis" and his accomplishments with the bTop at a showcase in Seattle, Washington. We at PSI do hope that you can profit in various ways from our hardware interface.

The bTop board also brings great simplicity to interfacing real world elements to the Macintosh. While there have been many similar products available for Windowns/Linux platforms, PSI has found the first cost effective solution for Macintosh.

The board uses full-speed USB 2.0 with 16 channels of digital I/O: 8 channels of 12 bit A-to-D and 8 channels of 8 bit D-to-A. By using its Cocoa API and OS X drivers, prototyping and development of custom applications is simple and fast. The bTop-1 board draws all its power from the USB port. Future expansion is provided for by way of an I2C bus. The bTop-1 ships with the required USB cable.

We have said a lot here about the bTop-1, yet our business remains centered upon the algorithm world. Again, we appreciate your business and look forward to any further communication. Please feel quite free to contact us.

Devin E. Crandall
PSI Marketing Department

DCrandall@perfsci.com
www.perfsci.com

[budster101]

Wow two posts and they're both the same...

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You wouldn't be a spammer now would you?

[Millennium]

If it was designed specifically for the Mac, then why doesn't it use a real connection protocol, like FireWire?

Ahem. This is clearly spam. The link he posts to is dead, though the corresponding page isn't hard to find. Still, for once this may actually be of genuine use to someone here. I admit that I'm intrigued, at any rate.

[DeathToWindows]

demonhood, the ban hammer if you please

[budster101]

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally Posted by Millennium

If it was designed specifically for the Mac, then why doesn't it use a real connection protocol, like FireWire?

Ahem. This is clearly spam. The link he posts to is dead, though the corresponding page isn't hard to find. Still, for once this may actually be of genuine use to someone here. I admit that I'm intrigued, at any rate.

I was interested, and then I found that he had posted the same thing SEVEN times all over the board, these seven being all he's posted since he registered today. There are rules here in the forum, and it specifically mentions commercial advertisements. What's even more fishy is that he is shady in his subject lines.

• "I develop all my software using bTop!"
• "I just discovered this new software"
• "My favorite application"
• etc...

It's too bad his product is legit, because for a "Marketing" person, he sure sucks at marketing.