Computers are digital processors and handle information as a series of discrete data points. Real instruments often measure and generate data in analog fashion-a continuous signal comprised of infinite data points. Both ways of presenting data have their strengths, but the ability to access and compare both at the same time is a powerful learning tool. They may well be the most sophisticated learning tools available to engineering students anywhere. We even paid attention in our planning to aesthetic details, including a pleasing color that students will find attractive.
Credit has to go to many people for a remarkable team effort.
Without this kind of generosity, the LabStation concept, and the ITLL itself, could not have been brought to reality.