Our Group Computer Skills

Simon

• OS/2
• Fortran, NAG libraries
• Statgraphics
• WordStar
• Vedit
• Pine (email program on the CPC alphas)
• Searching Chem. Abstracts (I'm not a wizard, but have the software, login i.d., and password)

Mario

• DOS and Windows 3.1
• Fortran programming
• Word 6 and Wordstar 6 to a lesser extent, (I've used Word 97 once to modify and print a document and promptly lost it when I went to read the file with Word 6)
• Teemtalk, for BIDS and the library catalogues
• Netscape, searching with Alta Vista (mostly for product info)
• ECS Mail,
• Using the HP Scanner in the research computer room,
• Paint Shop Pro for converting image format (*.TIF to *.BMP), QV for Windows (a shareware prog from HENSA), again converting image format (*.TIF to *.JPG),
• Grapher, a small DOS graphing program for simple graphs and polynomial fits, Adobe Acrobat, for viewing downloaded *.PDF files from electronic journal sites,
• McAfee Virus Scanner, especially important when using the research machines (where the Goldfish virus has been appearing in the MSOFFICE subdirectories with monotonous regularity)

Derek

• Basic language programming
• A little FORTRAN
• Statistical Graphics
• Paintshop Pro
• Fig P. (Biosoft - grapher+statistics package + integration and full graph attribute control for publication ready graphs).
• Word 6
• WordStar 6
• DESOC !
• Smiles + commercial Henry's law prediction Prgs
• Windows 3.1 and 95.
• DOS
• ATARI TOS operating system

Peter

• UNIX (eg AWK, VI, SED &tc),
• BASIC, FORTRAN(rusty!)
• Prolog (mostly Borland's dated, but elegant Turbo PROLOG)
• HTML and HOTMETAL PRO
• JAVASCRIPT (basic knowledge)
• STATGRAPHICS
• POWERPOINT
• PAINTSHOP-PRO
• MINITAB (rusty)
• DERIVE & EUREKA (equation & algebra solvers)
• EXCEL (some and I hate it!)