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Our Equipment and Software

General Equipment
Adaptive Equipment
General Software
Adaptive Software
Scanning Software
Macintosh Software

Last Updated: August 11, 2006

General Equipment

The ACS General Access Lab currently has the following equipment available:

  • Twenty-four PCs (PCs 1-24)
    • Pentium D 3.00 GHz computers, 250GB hard drive, and 1GB RAM with DVD/CD Burners
  • Two Macintosh G4 towers
  • Three Epson Perfection 1260 scanners (PC 20, 21, 24)
  • Three Laser Printers - two Kyocera FS-9530DN (Black and White) and one Kyocera FS-C5025N (Color)

 

Adaptive Equipment

We have three adaptive stations in the ACS lab.  All adaptive patrons are strongly encouraged to seek help from our lab staff when using the adaptive hardware and software. Our consultants have been specially trained to use this equipment.

  • Three Adaptive Stations (PC 25, PC 26, & PC 27)
    • Pentium D 3.00 GHz computers, 250GB hard drive, and 1GB RAM with DVD/CD Burners

 

General Software

All PC stations (PCs 1-27) have the following software:

    Operating System: WindowsXP
            Virus protection: McAfee 8.5i

    Accessibility

            Jaws 9.0

            MAGic 11.0

            ZoomText 8.0

    Office Suite: Microsoft Office 2003
            Access 2003
            Excel 2003
            InfoPath 2003
            Front Page 2003
            PowerPoint 2003
            Publisher 2003
            Word 2003

    Office Suite: Microsoft Office 2007
            Access 2007
            Excel 2007
            Groove 2007
            InfoPath 2007
            OneNote 2007
            PowerPoint 2007
            Publisher 2007
            Word 2007

    Adobe       
            Adobe Acrobat 8.1.2 Professional
            Adobe Acrobat Distiller 8.1.2

    Internet

            Internet Explorer 7.0

            Mozilla Firefox 2.0

 

    Multimedia

            Real Player 10.5

            Windows Media Player 9.0

            Power DVD 5.0

            QuickTime 7.0

 

    CD Burning

            Roxio CD Creator 5 Basic

            NTI DVD-Maker 6.7

 

    Utilities

            Ghost Script 8.0

            GS View 4.7

            WinZip 9.0 SR-1

 

    Communications

            PuTTy

            Teraterm 2.3

            WS FTP

            X-Win32 6.1

            WinSCP 4.1.6

 

    Statistics

            EViews 6

            Lisrel 8.80

            SAS 9.1

            SPLUS 8.0

            SPSS 15

            Stat Transfer 8

            Stata 10

 

Adaptive Software

Our Adaptive Stations (PC 25, PC 26, & PC 27) have the following software in addition to General Software mention above.  Several Chroma CCD units are available in the Office for Disability Accomodation (Union - Suite 232) for the magnification of text.

    Accessibility
            JAWS 9.0 Information and Tutorial
            MAGic 11.0 Information and Tutorial
            Zoomtext 8.0 Information and Tutorial
            Dragon Naturally Speaking 8.0 Information and Tutorial
            Scientific Notebook/Mathtalk 5.5 Information and Tutorial
            Duxbury Braille Translator 10.5 Information and Tutorial
            Tiger Viewer/Embosser 1.5 Information and Tutorial
            Focus Braille Display Software Information and Tutorial

Scanning Software Scanning Tutorial

Our Scanning Stations (PC 20, PC 21, PC 24 & PC 25) have the following software:

    Scanning
            Kurzweil 1000 8.0 (PC 25 only)
            TextBridge Pro Millennium 9.5
            Adobe Photoshop CS3
            Adobe ImageReady CS3

 

Macintosh Software

Our Macintosh Stations have the following software:

    Operating System: OS X
            Office Suite: Microsoft Office X for Macintosh
            Virus protection: Virex
            Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional
            NiftyTelnet SSH

    Internet
            Internet Explorer 5.2 Mac
            Netscape Navigator 7.1
            Mozilla Firefox 1.5

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