On Restless Nights With Worthless People ....

.... it came to a point of having this one!

This special project is entitled PCScope: An Object Pascal PC-Based Oscilloscope Using the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) Bus. Restless nights of creating scratchpads for the software implementation, Smoking out a PC, creating numerous damaged Presynthesized Circuit Boards, debates, coffee, pancit canton, smokes, beers and Starcraft made this special project possible.

Without these worthless people, this special project would not be made possible.

Jeffrey R. Go
The man behind the circuit boards. He's the Basta yun na type of guy that Bob will really take time to internalize what he's doing. Definitely a determined one. He really spends for the betterment of one Worthless Creation. He never sleeps until he's done with his work. Beware .... because when he's given a chance to lie down, expect hours and hours to wake him up!
Bob Dale C. Ocer
The theory behind the worthless people. He really doesn't talk trash. Serious in all his doings, he has the makings as a Professor X. He will never accept your ideas if he does not find an equation suitable for his interest. He also possess the Thomas Edison habit. He sleeps only when fatigue creeps his spines. Beware .... don't bother him when he's meditating!

Patrick Karim N. Padilla
The trying-hard software developer. He uses Marlboro Red and Coffee to stimulate his spines. He's one hell of a 24/7 guy. A lazy fella who only takes time doing the worthless creation when lazyness is lazy. Beware .... Don't offer him beer for he'll be forgetting that he has a work that needs to be done.


Here's the abstract of our Worthless Creation ....

A PC-based digital oscilloscope called PCScope is constructed which utilizes pulse code modulation (PCM) of ADC0841 as the encoding technique in the analog to digital conversion process. The 8-bit PCM codes are fed into the PC using the ISA bus and the resulting visual representation of the signal waveform is displayed using a program written in Object Pascal (Borland Delphi). Quantitative analysis show that there are still several unresolved issues primarily concerning digital signal processing, instrumentation principles and electronic design. Nevertheless, the data incurred in the synthesis process of the said measuring equipment are meant to provide the basis for improving the design of instruments that show graphical form of the signal considered.

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And for Bob and Jeffrey whom both had just graduated last March 2005, MY VERY BIG THANKS TO YOU GUYS! All your devotions really shed me tears. Until then for another Worthless Creation I will never forget the times that we shared together .... from all the debates, laughters, eat-all-you-can sessions, beer sessions, coffee sessions, Starcraft nights .... I will surely miss those times! La bonne chance vous deux