Archive for the 'MS DOS' Category

WESTECT (continued)

Saturday, September 13th, 2003

Well old projects need maintaining. I have been returning to Westinghouse Rail System from time-to-time over the last 7 years as a part time consultant to investigate and assist the small remaining team to repair defects in the WESTECT ATP system. During that time there was one major upgrade to integrate the on-board sub-system to […]

EPROM Programmer

Friday, September 13th, 1996

This project was again for a budget conscious client.  Digressoft constructed the hardware from an Elector magazine kit and developed a program that ran on a PC to drive the programmer hardware.

Automatic Train Protection

Tuesday, December 13th, 1994

After five years WESTECT goes live and it is time for me to go back and do some more study! WESTECT, produced by Westinghouse Rail System Australia, is one of the first continuous Automatic Train Protection (ATP) systems in the world.  Designed in conjunction with and for Queensland Rail for their main coastal route.  ATP […]

Commercial Applications on the “New IBM PC”

Monday, January 1st, 1990

After 5 years working as an Analyst/C Programmer for Pancom Systems Pty Ltd.  I have decided it is time to move onto something more physical. In that time projects included: Development of a cashbook accounting system to run under both CPM and PC-DOS. Modification of an existing client/product management application and underlying database management system […]

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