At 05:19 PM 4/29/99 -0400, Lindsay Wilson wrote:
>Speaking of Palm Pilots, while I was at the BFG Spec. Racer Ford tire testing
>at Roebling Road, the BFG engineers used Palm Pilots to record ALL the data
>they take. They had the temp probe interfaced to the Palm Pilot and would
>take the tire temps in a specified order. The temps were auto stored in the
>Palm Pilot. The BFG engineer didn't seem to want to tell me much about the
>system when I asked, but he did say that they used 'public' program which
>one of their guys had modified.
>
>Besides taking the temps., they could also input tire pressures with
notations,
>and the drivers comments about the tires.
Autocross.com has a link to a story about this.
Dick Rasmussen
CM 85
85 Van Diemen RF-85 Formula Ford
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