Server setup

The server is a Silicon Graphics WebFORCE Indy server. It has 32M RAM, and a 1 G harddisk. It is running Netsite communication server 1.1N.

"The Silicon Graphics and "Powered by Silicon Graphics" logos, and Silicon Graphics, are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc."

The backup server is a Apple Power Macintosh 6100/60AV with 24M RAM and a 230M hard drive. It runs MacHTTP 2.0.1 under System 7.1.2.

WWW Programming

Perl
C-shell scripts
C programs
JavaScripts

were used for CGI programming on the SGI server.

AppleScripts were used on the Macintosh server for form and clickable map CGI processing.

Multimedia Authoring

Multimedia tutorials were authored in Macromedia Director 4.0.4

and

This web site powered by Shockwave for Director

3D Graphics

Computer graphics were done in

SGI's Iris Explorer 2.2
AVS
Autodesk 3D Studio Release 4
Visual Software's Visual Reality 2.0.3
POV-ray
Jandel's TableCurve 3D for Windows 1.0
Spyglass Dicer 2.0

Chemical structures were created in

MSI's Quanta 4.0,
HyperCube's HyperChem Release 2
CS's ChemDraw Pro 3.2
CS's Chem3D Pro 3.5

Images

The photographs of instruments were taken with a Nikon FM 35mm SLR camera using regular print films. The prints were scanned with an Apple Color OneScanner and Ofoto 2.0.2.

Adobe PhotoShop 3.0.4

was used to digital enchance the photos.

2D computer graphics were drawn in Adobe Illustrator 5.5, Lotus' Freelance Graphics for Windows 2.1, or Wordstar's PhotoFinish 3.0. (There appears to be a problem with saving files in GIF format within PhotoFinish 3.0, so they were converted into GIF format with LView Pro 1.B.) Transparent and Interlaced GIFs are done by WinGIF 1.4, LView Pro 1B, or Transparency 1.0

Videos

Videos were taped on a SONY CCD-F501 8mm video camcorder. They were digitized into QuickTime format on a Power Macintosh 6100/60AV using Fusion Recorder 1.0.2. The final movies were composed in Adobe Premiere 4.0.

Animations were saved as individual PICT file and converted into QuickTime movies using ConvertToMovie from Apple's QuickTime 2.0.

MPEG movies were converted from the QuickTime originals using Sparkle 2.4.2 or SGI's Digital Media software

Audio

Audio editings were done in Macromedia SoundEdit 16 1.0.1.

MIDI sequences were done in Midisoft's Recording Session for Windows 1.12 and a Yamaha Portatone PSR-83 keyboard.

Backup

Iomega ZIP drives, and Bernoulli MultiDisk 150/230 Transportable drives are used for backup.

An APC SmartUPS 1250 is used for the main SGI server. PowerChute Plus for UNIX v4.2.1 will eventually be installed.
An APC Back-UPS 450 Uninterruptable Power Supply with PowerChute 2.0.1 software is used for power management and automatic server shutdown for the backup Mac server.

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