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Hi

We have managed to get the system up and running with no patient data loss!

Just to say though that any tenders bearing the name "Ferraris Group" that land on my desk will be filed under "bin".

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Well done, Mate. But you don't escape that easily, I'm afraid. We need the how's, the where's, and the why's! smile

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Hi Geoff, I scanned it with this and it worked first time! Apparently the database was locked (due to an ungraceful closedown).

For anyone else, “Del Mar Reynolds" provides NO support whatsoever! I jest ye not (no reply for over 2 weeks???)!

“Del Mar Reynolds Medical”, you are a disgrace to the industry!

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A nice fix, Eddie. I hope that the ungraceful one has been (is being) suitably chastised!

"Scanned it in"? Ultrasound? That's advanced stuff, Mate.

It's "interesting" though that the OEM didn't see fit to bother with a database repair routine as part of his software. It would have been a nice touch, after all. Or (perhaps better yet) even have used a DOS system, which would have been a bit more "forgiving" ... or even some sort of battery-backed system (to close the files) which would tolerate "ungraceful exits" or all types!

See ... who needs "tech support" (from so-called Local Agents, or anybody else). smile

PS: The Del Mar Reynolds Medical of today is clearly not the Del Mar Avionics and Reynolds Medical of old! But, there again, the same may be said of many of the contemporary manufacturers, can it not? The factory is closed for summer holidays, I should imagine. I only hope they're enjoying the same lovely weather as we're having here in the UK.

PPS: I notice that Nucleus do a whole range of data recovery software, so that's a handy website. Of course, back in pre-history, we used to be able to patch .dbf files (etc.) back together ourselves, using simple tools such as the Norton Disk Editor (much more fun). Oh, happy, happy, days.

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So true

Do you remember replacing a simple EOF byte!

I made a killing with Norton Utilities Un-erase program! When things like a file delete would only add an ? to the first character in the file name!Oh happy days!

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PS there was a Database repair utility with the software but it could not deal wuth a locked database file? If they had bothered to get back to me there where a few questions I had for them!

Oh well lesson learnt!

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Oh, yes! I consider myself fortunate to have passed through two Golden Ages. The Golden Age of computers, and the Golden Age of biomed. Things are just not the same in either sphere these days, I would say, and it's probably time to move on (... but, to what?).

The thought occurs that "they" may have considered the locking of the files as a "feature", as (I'm assuming) they contain confidential patient data. smile

PS: I hope you noticed that I included a fair example of Baboon Speak there.


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Del Mar Reynolds doesn't exist anymore. It's now Spacelabs and the Ferraris lung test equipment went from Ferraris to DelMar and now its NSpire Health

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Hi Graham

I have contacted all of the above and they all share one support email service@dmr.ferrarisgroup.com

Spacelabs :- service@dmr.ferrarisgroup.com

Also the website www.delmarreynolds.com was enjoying an upgrade last sunday! Also guess what their email is? Yes service@dmr.ferrarisgroup.com

Okay an update to this thread:-

"Spacelabs" you are a disgrace to the industry!
You have also given a redefinition to the term “Stress Test”!

Eddie





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Both Del Mar and Spacelabs were spin-offs from the "space race" and the "military-industrial complex" which were heavily dependent upon the so-called "Cold War".

As recent events in and around the Roki Tunnel have proved (if nothing else), the moth-balling of the F-22 (and all the rest) might indeed prove to be a bit premature, so perhaps we can at least now look forward to some new technical innovation.

Could this be another example of "natural selection"? But in the round, as it were ... for all mankind.

Hint: Stephen Hawking is right (of course he is, with a brain like his) ... the sooner mankind escapes this planet the better, if our long-term survival is to be assured. smile

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