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To: Ontopequity who wrote (168)	2/10/1998 9:38:00 AM
From: John B. Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 856

Doug, you were mixing different vignettes of the projects I was involved in over the past three decades. I did not work on the Challenger Rocket. The fault tolerant technology started when we designed multiple point failure proof architecture for an unmanned control system used on the White Pass and Yukon's two container ships (Frank H. Brown and Klondike) which we designed and commissioned in 1978 through 1979. These ships carried general cargo, fuels and dangerous cargo between Vancouver, B.C. and Skagway Alaska. We then won a contract to provide a radiation hardened version of the system to monitor and control equipment operating at the Idaho National Engineering Labs to reprocess spent fuel rods. That project was one of the top 10 defense projects in the U.S. in 1985. In 1998 we won a contract from the Atomic Energy of Canada to adapt the technology to monitor and control the refuelling machine for a new Nuclear Power Plant concept (CANDU 3). Unfortunately, the projects was determined not to be commercially feasible and scrapped before the design was completed. Our current UIC (or RTU) design in fact was based on the fault tolerant architecture and other advanced features that evolved from these projects. I recognized that there had to be a good commercial application for this technology, and looked at the SCADA market (which is what the prior systems essentially were). I am still amazed at how large this market is and how far behind in fault tolerant architecture the industry is. We have some new and exciting projects under development which will keep us at the forefront in this market. Regards, John