[throwmamatrain]

Ah, the uManager guys! Great software, sits on top of ImageJ (open source image analysis).

Our software was a custom C+Win32 app that was ported from CodeWarrior on MacOS 7/8. Windows timers were so crap that I ended up using Ryan Geiss' timer from Milkdrop: http://www.geisswerks.com/ryan/FAQS/timing.html

Yes, that Ryan Geiss, the Winamp one. He now works for Nvidia I think.

Our machines were bristling with serial ports, driving high speed filter wheels, lasers of every color we could get our hands on, special shutters coated with teflon, fast expensive cameras, and more! Their work is very much in my old field, I was in bioenergetics, specifically mitochondria and their dysfunction.

Thanks for the link down memory lane!