We are in the process of modernizing our nmr facility here, which has
historically been all Bruker equipment. One question and one offer to you
have arisen. Our old consoles, a WM and AM used CDC 9448 hard disk drives.
They are all 32MB except one which is 96MB. There is virtually no value for
these with regard to selling them, so I'm offering them to anyone who will
pay to ship them. Also, we have 50-60 disk packs for these drives most of
which have been regularly cleaned and inspected by Randomex and presently
Data Guidelines (the former Randomex engineer who started his own company
after Randomex went bankrupt). Also, we have three HP 7550A plotters with
various carousels and spare parts that could be given away.
Now for the question:
The new consoles are all DPX and DRX AVANCE systems using XWINNMR 2.0 with
the option of using ICONNMR. One console is for undergraduate use; we plan
to use ICONNMR for this one. I would be interested in any comments you have
good or bad regarding ICONNMR for use in an undergraduate lab. The other two
consoles are for use by graduate students, postdocs, and faculty...by people
who will be doing VT work, multinuclear work, X-decoupling, etc. Our
executive officer is eager to make use of ICONNMR for its accounting
capability (billing). I am interested in your comments and experience in
using ICONNMR in a graduate student setting. My feeling is that it will be
too restrictive. (Can you use wobbler to tune the probe, for example?)
Thanks for you input.
Jim
James E. Van Epp, Jr.,Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Brown University
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