weyh@.uucp (Darwin C. Weyh) (08/30/90)
I need to know if there many users of INTERGRAPH systems are out there in the USENET community. So if you are using INTERGRAPH systems or sofware, please send me mail and information about what you are using. thanks, -- ============================================================================ Darwin C. Weyh -- Consultant for the Los Angeles Dept of Water and Power POB 111 Rm 848 Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 580-0822 ============================================================================
cof@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Colleen Farrell) (08/31/90)
Yep. Here's another Intergraph user out here on Usenet. I work for a natural gas utility company in Detroit, Michcon. We have a 6310 Vax along with six Intergraph workstations, Interacts, an Interpro, and two 3000 series workstations. We are using Intergraph to map out our service territory. What's this about not using a disk-defragmenter? I know our vax system manager has defragmented our drives. Do you mean the workstation hard drives? BTW, I think I may have been in a Framme class with two people from LA Power and Light. The class was in May in Huntsville. Sorry, but I don't remember their names. Let me know what you are doing with Intergraph. Email or post, Colleen
sergio@squid.rtech.com (Sergio Aponte) (09/03/90)
Well, one more... I work for Ingres Corp., RDBMS company, and I use an Interpro 120 as my daily driver. We in support provide backline support to Intergraph on the Ingres product on their boxes. I have CLIX on mine, having lots of fun with X, etc... And of course, I have Ingres 5 and 6 on it. It is funny to see sun and decstats and vaxstat user walk by and go "what the heck is that??? Boy, looks good!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Internet: sergio@squid.ingres.com Sergio L. Aponte, MTS @ Ingres Corp. | | UUCP : {sun,mtxinu,pyramid,pacbell,hoptoad,amdahl}!ingres!squid!sergio | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cameron@kirk.nmg.bu.oz (Cameron Stevenson) (09/05/90)
From article <weyh.652027308@plot>, by weyh@.uucp (Darwin C. Weyh): > > I need to know if there many users of INTERGRAPH systems are out there > in the USENET community. So if you are using INTERGRAPH systems or > sofware, please send me mail and information about what you are using. > G'Day from down under! Hey this is great! You wouldn't believe what just happened. I was sitting here in front of my IP120, filling in time by reading the CLIPPER Release News from July, 1989 (I know, it's a bit late, but I have already read once, and I thought I'd better have another look before we get our next upgrades). Anyway, I have been reading the Usenet stuff for a while now, and have been lamenting about how there is no Intergraph stuff, despite the fact that their bulletin board service seems to be part of the Usenet community. Well, I read the chapter on setting up a usenet feed to our site, and saw the reference to comp.sys.misc. I thought, I did, nah there won't be anything in there; nobody with Intergraph equipment seems to post. I can't describe how surprised I was when I saw "Any Intergraph users out there". So, yep, I'm here. A little introduction.... The site is Bond University, Australia's first private university. The university has been operational since May '89 and now has around 1000 students. We have two measly InterPro 120's doing the majority of the work for the system we are establishing (I'll explain the system shortly). As well as those two machines, we are hooked to the university's network, and can 'talk' to the nearly 1000 Mac's, 200 PC's, 100 or so VaxStations, and assorted MicorVax's, Sun's, and Pyramids. The network is interesting in that it is twisted-pair wiring around the skirting boards of every room, which goes to a riser. It is then converted to ethernet, sent down to the basement, where it meets a MicroVax 3100, converted to token ring on a fibre optic loop, and sent to the recieving MicroVax, which sends it all out to the recieving machine. It is all very fast, especially with those 3100's (one in the basement of each building) doing nothing more than network routing. Appletalk runs across the site, so that any Mac can talk with any other Mac. We have our Mac's talking to the workstations in a number of ways, all of them not totally successful (any good suggestions?) The project(application) we are building with our trusty Intergraph equipment is a facility management system, starting with an as-built graphic/non-graphic database. We then link this as-built database with task related applications that will be used in the day-to-day running of the university's facilities ie. maintenance, space planning, asset register, key register, building automation, security, etc, etc.... The main advantage (the main justification if you like) of linking these systems through to the as-built database is that there is usually a degree of overlap in the information each system needs. By this I mean that the maintenance system needs to know information about rooms (room number, floor area, surface finishes, etc), while the space planning system also needs to know information about rooms (room number, floor area, use, occupant, etc). As you can see there is some overlap. Now, if we change the room number (say by management decree), and we were running a bunch of separate systems (as is normally the case), we would have to remember to change that room number in each separate system (with the inherent problem of data integrity). The graphics side of the as-built data base is used as the 'language reference' for the non-graphic database. By this I mean, it is not normally easy for people to remember room numbers, but where the room is located. So a drawing is far more useful as a central reference source than any forms based database could ever hope to be. The tools we are using are MicroStation (naturally) for the graphics database (32, PC, and Mac versions), linked via the network to a directory where all the drawings are kept (wherever on the network I can find enough room, currnet one of the MivcroVax's). We NFS mount the remote directory, and bingo everyone can use the drawings. The drawing elements are linked to ORACLE, which once again runs across all platforms. This way we can have people working all day in ORACLE, and not ever see a drawing (data entry, mainly), or others who work on the drawings without worrying about the database. We have been developing a front end to the system for the Mac's using HyperCard so that anybody on site can get access to the information eg. what is the temperature of my office? Change it up a degree or two... Where does Wendy Cameron sit? When is that room vacant next week, etc..... The equipment specifics are: 2 x IP120's (15"/80mb, 19"/156mb), 2 x MS32, 2 x Project Architect, 1 x ModelView So there you have. Now how about anyone else... What have you got, what are you using it for? Cameron Stephenson Telephone +61 75 951220 Bond University Gold Coast Australia PS. I must say now that some of our software has been loaned to us by Intergraph Australia. Without their support, we could never have gone as far as we have in the short time we had available to us. The university has been through some extremely tough economic times during it's startup phase, and while we are now slowly buying anything we don't own, Intergraph's help has been immeasurable. WELL DONE INTERGRAPH!! PPS. How the hell do I send an email message to some of the Intergraph staff at Hunstville. They use UUCP addressing while we use Internet addressing over here. I need a full path as the Internet routers don't seem to be able to route a UUCP address. Specifically I want to send a message to Tony Crawford to introduce myself (I'm the newly elected AEC SIG Chairperson for Australia). Any help would be welcomed.
darryl@b11.ingr.com (Darryl Davis) (09/06/90)
In article <2214@kirk.nmg.bu.oz>, cameron@kirk.nmg.bu.oz (Cameron Stevenson) writes: >PPS. How the hell do I send an email message to some of the Intergraph staff >at Hunstville. They use UUCP addressing while we use Internet addressing over >here. I need a full path as the Internet routers don't seem to be able to route >a UUCP address. Specifically I want to send a message to Tony Crawford to >introduce myself (I'm the newly elected AEC SIG Chairperson for Australia). Any >help would be welcomed. Try using <Intergraph internal mail path>@ingr.com where <Intergraph internal mail path> is what comes after uunet!ingr! in the Intergraph employee's UUCP path. For example, Tony Crawford's UUCP path from outside of Intergraph is ...!uunet!ingr!b17b!tonyc!tony From Internet, you should be able to reach him using b17b!tonyc!tony@ingr.com Good luck! Darryl -- -- Darryl Davis Phone: (205) 730-8554 Manager, Electronics Software Engineering Fax.: (205) 730-8344 Intergraph Corporation Internet: darryl@ingr.com Huntsville, AL 35894-0001 UUCP: uunet!ingr!darryl -- --
dale@tc.fluke.COM (Dale Brandenstein) (09/16/90)
My company designs and manufactures electronic test and measurement instruments. Perhaps our most well known products are digital hand- held multimeters. We have had four Interpro workstations since February of 1989. I am a senior modelmaker, and use an IP340 for 3-axis NC programming. An IP220 and IP360 are used for mechanical design. The fourth station is an IP6280 with 27" screen, used for industrial design. We will be acquiring two more IP6000 series stations this fall for mechanical drawing and design. Our company has a variety of PC's and Sun workstations, too. Our network is Ethernet, with TCP/IP protocol and NFS. This is what we have the Intergraph stations networked to. ========================================================= Dale Brandenstein John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. Email: dale@tc.fluke.COM PO Box C9090 M/S 126 Phone:(206)356-5149 Everett, WA 98206 USA =========================================================