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From: jd545204@lance.colostate.edu (Justin Downs)
Subject: Denning MRV's
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For your information:

Last fall CSU had a Denning MRV-3 donated for research.  No documentation was 
included.  I spent a lot of time trying to find info on it through this and
other groups.  I discovered Denning had gone out of business and no support
was available.

Good news for MRV users:

Denning is now restructured and has developed a retrofit kit for the MRV  
series of robot vehicles.  The kit replaces the 68K processor core, 64180
subsystems, and the OS-9 operating system with a 486 based system.  The 
486 system offers greatly increased processing power, a much simpler interface
and can be operated under DOS, Windows, OS/2, Unix, etc.

We installed a kit on our MRV and it works much better than the old system.
It is now much easier to develop behavior algorithms and test them on the 
robot than was previously possible.  If you have questions about how it works
feel free to contact me.

If you are interested in Denning products their address is now:

Denning Branch International Robotics
1401 Ridge Avenue
Pittsburch, PA  15233

Telephone  (412)322-4412


