Date: Tue, 9 Nov 93 08:44:03 CST
Subject: SX50 users group
From: johnf@ice

Dear UAF, OSU SX50 users:
I recently acquired your email addresses and am sending you a memo sent
out a few days ago to users at 19 other SX50 labs. For a couple of months
I've been working with folks at UC Santa Barbara in trying to get an SX50
users group organized; they should be mailing out a questionaire to
everyone on the Cameca users list. I've built up now (with these 2 new
sites) an email list of 21 labs, as an initial attempt to start
communication between/among users. (the list is appended at the end for
your information; if you know of any other sx50 users' internet addresses
please let me know).

(copy of message sent out 11/6/93)

I have a couple of things to raise at the moment;
1) Cameca is apparently in the final stages of revising SX50 software,
including a new version of Quantiview. I have received a test version and
found some continuing bugs (eg in Quantiview - Calibrate, going to the
wrong standard -same name, wrong block and position); something they've
known about for a long time. For everyone out there who's complained and/or
put up with problems in the software, it may not be too late to have
something done. I urge you to send a fax TODAY to Claude Conty, Cameca
(fax: 33 1 43 33 62 11) with your complaints and suggestions, and send a
copy (email or snail mail) to me. We aren't very organized (yet) but if
Cameca gets more than a couple of complaints we might have a chance.

2) Is anyone else out there going to the AGU meeting in San Francisco in
early December? If there are and if there is interest, maybe we can sit
down together and talk about some of the things we should be trying to do
as a users group. Let me know.

[list of folks on SX50 email list:
summer@probe.geol.scarolina.edu,Shervais@epoch.geol.scarolina.edu,pierce@mag
ic.geol.ucsb.edu,patrick@magic.geol.ucsb.edu,microprobe@tamu.edu,wm15079@geo
psun.tamu.edu,vicenzi@phoenix.princeton.edu,rnielsen@oce.orst.edu,hulse@elep
aio.soest.hawaii.edu,jinnys@geophysics.rice.edu,miltonp@geophysics.rice.edu,
jays@rice.edu,drake@sx50.ele.arizona.edu,bcrx@unixg.ubc.ca,raudsepp@unixg.ub
c.ca,schiffman@geology.ucdavis.edu,roeske@geology.ucdavis.edu,steele@geo1.uc
hicago.edu,jcr@quartz.geology.utoronto.ca,wpnash@cc.utah.edu,noso@vtvm1.cc.v
t.edu,dlondon@geoed.gcn.uoknor.edu,k56@psuvm.psu.edu,mshaf@oregon.uoregon.ed
u,gasp@brunb.bitnet,marcos@if1.ufrgs.br.bitnet,jeronimo@brufba.bitnet,d_mart
inez@rumac.upr.clu.edu,rmason@kean.ucs.mun.ca,basu@ucs.indiana.edu,doraism@u
cs.indiana.edu,brophy@ucs.indiana.edu,wintsch@ucs.indiana.edu,maggy@micropro
be.esd.mun.ca,mbarton@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu,dlittle@magnus.acs.ohio-stat
e.edu,fnkps@aurora.alaska.edu]

John Fournelle
Electron Microprobe Lab Internet:johnf@geology.wisc.edu
Dept of Geology & Geophysics Telephone: (608) 262-7964
University of Wisconsin Fax: (608) 262-0693
1215 West Dayton Street Amateur radio: WA3BTA/9
Madison, WI 53706 (14.030, 21.030 mHz)