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be started as soon as the previous race was completed. All race information could be printed in
many different formats at the operator’s convenience with an economical, full sized 81/2 by 11
inch line printer.
The System 5 Sports Timer incorporated a self-diagnostic system to check the timer’s internal
circuitry and components. The diagnostics program also ran circuitry checks on the cable
harness, touchpads, pushbuttons and scoreboard cable when these items are properly connected.
New programs for other sports were provided on diskette and downloaded from a personal
computer to the System 5’s internal memory. Once downloaded, the new programs remained in
the System 5, ready to be used at a single keystroke. New programs and program updates were
easily incorporated using this innovative system.
This full range of features built into the System 5 Sports Timer meant that it was the industry
leader ever since it came out.
With the advent of the System 6, users can take advantage of these existing features and the
addition of a larger and full color screen, external mouse and PC keyboard, support for 12-lane
pools, additional input and output capabilities, automatic updating of firmware and software,
automatic calculation of adjusted backup times (USA Swimming, NCAA and High School rule),
enhanced relay judging capabilities, enhanced handling of one line scoreboards, ability of
displaying subtracted and running splits simultaneously on LED matrix boards and the
possibility of continued software features.
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