Patchit(R) version 2.9
Copyright (C) 1989-1998 White Perch Software
All Rights Reserved

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*** FOR INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS SEE THE FILE "README.TXT" ***
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*** Press the F1 key at any time while running Patchit for  ***
*** help or to access the complete online documentation.    ***
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Patchit is a scientific data acquisition program written for performing
electrophysiological recordings (voltage/current vs time) experiments.
It is widely applicable to other data acquisition purposes.  It runs on
IBM PC compatibles in graphics mode and requires a data acquisition board.
The currently supported data acquisition boards are those in the Data
Translation DT2821 family and the Scientific Solutions (Tecmar) Labmaster
family.

Patchit can acquire on up to 16 channels of data while simultaneously
generating up to 2 analog and 14 binary (TTL) output waveforms   Acquired
data can be stored in native format (Patchit) or in Clampex format (pClamp
- Axon Instruments) either of which can be analyzed using the companion
data analysis program "Tack".

The appendix of the manual has information about configuring the data
acquisition board to work with Patchit.

Data recorded by Patchit can be analyzed with the Tack data analysis program
(also available from White Perch Software).  Tack can also read data files
written by other data acquisition programs.

If you are currently using another version of Patchit, We always recommend
that you save that copy of the old version, and all your parameter files
somewhere until you are sure that the new version of Patchit (this program)
is useful for you.

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Evaluation versions of Patchit are distributed as Shareware.  This
means that users are encouraged, subject to restrictions described
in the License Agreement, to share copies of this program with
friends, associates and bulletin boards.  Please remember that if
you use this software you are required to pay the registration fee
of $50 as described in the License Agreement (LICENSE.TXT).
