Welcome to the CoreDBMS program, which places magnetic core databooks from a
number of vendors in one, easy to use format.

Use the function keys F1 through F10 to make one of the following selections:
    F1 - show this screen
    F2 - display material information
    F3 - enter the core-selection and viewing routine
    F5 - display core outline drawings
    F6 - display vendor information
    F9 - show statistics; vendors included and breakdown of cores by type
    F10- To Quit this program.


The following options may be set from the command line:
   {/NGT /CGA /EGA}   Set video mode. /NGT specifies no-graphics terminal.
   /fg=n /bg=n /hl=n  Set fore-ground, back-ground, and high-lighting colors.
   /BW                Set monochrome monitor.
   /LPT1,/LPT2,/LPT3  Set printer port.
   /IBMPRO            Set graphics mode for IBM Pro-Printer
   /NGP               Specifies printer has no graphics capability.
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This is the Core Selection and Viewing Menu.  Use Browse, Detail, and Compare
modes to view cores; Use selections to limit the number of cores to view.

   F2 - tags all selected cores 'permanent' so they cannot fail a selection.
   F3 - lists all selected cores in BROWSE format.
   F4 - prompts you for a core record number to list in DETAIL format.
   shift-F4 to detail the first, selected record
   F6 - lists all selected cores in COMPARE format.
   F7 - enters the PRINT routine.
   F8 - enters the sort routine.
   F9 - resets selected-cores to all cores - tagged cores are not affected.
   sh-F9 - resets all cores including tagged cores.
   F10 will return to the main menu.
   S - for show statistics

At the right a status box shows the number of cores in the data-base, the
number of cores selected, the database in use, and the database revision.

At the left selection criterion are listed. Use the cursor to move the high-
light bar over your selection choice, or type the number next to the selection.

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                            This is the Browse menu.
Cores are listed across the screen, with; a record number, the effective mag-
netic length, area, and volume; Al, the form-factor, the material class & type,
the vendor, and the part number. Tab moves the screen right to show additional
screens; screen 2 gives dimensions, figure, and bobbin; screen 3 gives weight,
minimum effective area, and window area; screen 4 gives the note field.

Dimensions are in mm.  Magnetic data - i.e. lm, Ae, and Ve - are in cm, cm-
squared, and cm-cubed.  Al is in nano-Henries per Turn-squared. Window area is
in cm^2.

   PAGE-UP, PAGE-DOWN, UP-ARROW, and DOWN-ARROW move through the records.
   HOME and END jump to the first and last record.
   TAB, SHIFT-TAB, and 1,2,3, 4  move sideways through four screens.
   J 'jumps' you ahead in the listing to the record you enter.
   F2 tags all selected records 'permanent'.
   F3 toggles the CURSOR
   F4 will prompt you for a core record number to list in DETAIL.
   F5 will 'drop' a record from the list.
   F7 will enter the PRINT / FILE routine.
   F8 will allow sorting the selected cores.
   F10 will return to the selection menu.
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Toggle the cursor on/off with the F3 key. When the cursor is on, F2, F4, F5,
and X affect only the core high-lighted by the cursor. This is a quick way to
go through a list of cores, check through a lot of information, and eliminate
or tag them.

With the cursor ON, X will display the Detail-Material menu for the material
high-lighted.

Use the UP-ARROW and DOWN-ARROW keys to move the cursor. The PAGE-UP, PAGE-
DOWN, and all other screen-movement keys behave as before.
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Window 1 gives;
    Record#, Ae in square-cm, Lm in cm, Al - nH/(N-squared), form factor,
    material, Vendor, and part-number

Window 2 gives;
    Record#, dimension A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, Figure number, and Bobbin.

Window 3 gives;
    Record#, minimum Ae, Weight in grams, the Window Area(Aw) in square-cm,
    and the Ae*Aw product.

Window 4 gives the note-field.

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This is the Materials Selection and Viewing Menu.  Use Browse and Detail mode
to view materials; Use selections to limit the number of materials to view.

At the screen bottom, a help bar gives the major options:
   F3 lists all selected materials in BROWSE format;
   F4 lists selected materials in DETAIL format.
   F7 enters the PRINT routine.
   F8 enters the sort routine.
   F9 resets selected-materials to all materials.
   F10 will return to the main menu.

Above the help bar, a second line displays options while making selections.

At the left of the screen the selection criterion are listed. Use the cursor
to move the highlight bar over your selection choice, or type the number next
to the selection.
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This is the Detail Screen of the Materials menu.

At the very bottom of the screen a help-line gives major options. Above this
line is a block of display options, preceeded by ()'s.

These options are graphs. If a * is enclosed in the () - (*) - then that graph
is available for the material shown. To display a graph hit the F2 key to bring
up a selection menu, or the number 1 through 9.

The cross-reference command - X - will select all cores using the displayed
material.
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This is the Detail menu.  Detail displays the maximum amount of information on
a core in a single screen. If you have a graphics terminal, the detail screen
will display an outline drawing of the selected core.

Dimensions are in mm. Dimensional tolerance is in percent, or min, max, or as
described in the note field. If no tolerance is given, either the dimensions
are nominal, or the vendor does not specify tolerance.

The figures are in two parts; on the left a side view; the right view rotates
the core shown on the left to look at a core half. Sufficient detail is shown
in these drawings to make the dimensioning obvious - where full accuracy in
rendering the core would be too confusing, the drawing has been simplified.

At the bottom of the screen a help bar gives the possible commands:
      X - Displays the material used in this core.
     F2 - tag this record 'permanent'.
     F3 - changes to the BROWSE screen, showing 20 records at one time.
     F4 - prompts for another record to display.
     F5 - drops this record from the selection list.
     F6 - changes to the COMPARE screen, showing 6 records at one time.
     F7 - enters the PRINT / FILE routines.
     F10- returns to the selection menu.
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            This is the Browse Display screen of the Materials menu.
There are three screens available, moved between with the TAB and shift-TAB
keys and the numbers 1,2, and 3.

Screen 1 gives;
  Vendor, Material Type, Material, initial Permeability, maximum Permeability,
  Saturation Flux density in Gauss and Oersteads at the measurement, the
  residual flux density in Gauss, the Coercive force in Oersteads, and the
  minimum and maximum recommended operating frequency in Hertz.
Screen 2 gives;
  loss factor, the frequency at which it was measured, dissipation factor, the
  specific gravity, and the Curie temperature.
Screen 3 gives the notefield for the material.

At the bottom of the screen a help-line gives the major options.
    F3 - Toggle Cursor ON/OFF: With Cursor ON, F4-DETAIL key will jump to the
         high-lighted material, F7-print will print the high-lighted material,
         and X will cross-reference cores with the high-lighted material.
    F4 - enter DETAIL mode
    F7 - Print/File listed materials
    F8 - sort listed materials
    F10 - return to Materials Selection and Viewing Menu.
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         This is Compare Mode of the Core Selection and Viewing Routine

Compare makes extensive use of colors to display the majority of information
about a core on three lines. By scanning up and down the screen, looking at
like-colored fields in the same columns, you can quickly compare different
cores.

A key at the screen bottom identifies each field of the core description by
location and by color.

If you have a monochrome terminal you will probably find Compare mode to be
very confusing, and you should probably not use compare mode.
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                    This is the Select-by-Tagged Cores Menu

Tagged cores cannot fail searches.  Thus they are usable to perform 'OR' 
searches; perform one search, tag the cores, perform a second search, and the 
selected cores are those which match your first search OR your second search.

You can "Select tagged cores" to quickly limit the selection list to cores you
have already tagged, Clear all tagged cores, and tag all cores on the
selection list.  You may not tag ALL cores; matched cores must be less than
the total cores for a Tag operation to work.

You may also Tag selected cores with the F2 key, and clear with shift-F9.

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Help Screen 9
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            This is the Display-Graphs Menu of the Materials Section

Not all materials will have all ten graphs. The available graphs are indicated
by an asterisk - star - in front of the menu item. You may display any graph
which is starred, either by typing the number or letter to the right of the
star, or by pointing at the item with the cursor keys and hitting ENTER.

You may not display a graph which is not starred.

To exit this menu press the ESC or F10 key.

For convenience, typing the PG-UP and PG-DN keys move forward and backwards in
the selection list of materials. This is also true while viewing graphs, which
allows you to view a graph then view the same graph for the next material with
just two key-strokes.

When displaying graphs, the tab and right- and left-cursor keys will jump to
different graphs for the same material, allowing you to quickly view all graphs
for a material.

The graphs may be printed to a graphics-capable printer by selecting a graph,
then typing P while viewing the graph.
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To select a core by the MATCHING option, you must first select a single core.

You can do this by limiting the selection list to a single core, perhaps by 
searching for a known part number.

Or you may select a core by tagging a single core.  You may do this by viewing
the cores - either in BROWSE mode with the cursor on or in Detail mode - and
hitting the F2 key.

After you have selected a core you are asked if a default tolerance of +/-10% 
for the dimensions is okay. If you answer `no', you are prompted for a new 
value, between 1 and 20 - 1% to 20%.

You are also asked if the matching cores must be of the same material type as
your selected core.

The program resets the selection list to all cores, then makes multiple search-
es to find all cores which are of the same form-factor, material type, and with
dimensions matching your selected core.

This search does not check figures, so if you want a core EXACTLY like the 
selected core you may have to do a further selection by figure.
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Help screen 12
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Use the Core Selection and Viewing Menu - key F3 - and the MATCH A CORE option
to find an alternate source for a core.

You must first select a single core, either by limiting the selection list to a
single core(perhaps by searching for a known part number), or by pointing to a 
core in the BROWSE or DETAIL viewing modes and tagging it with the F2 key.

After selecting a core you may enter a tolerance for matching dimensions or 
accept the default of +/-10% .  You may also limit the search to the same 
material type as your selected core, or search through all materials.

The result is a selection list of all cores which are of the same form-factor, 
material type(optional), and with dimensions matching your selected core.

This search does not check figures, so if you want a core EXACTLY like the 
selected core(e.g. mounting features, rounding, etc.) you may have to do a 
further selection by figure.
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                            Miscellaneous Selections

Unique-sizes eliminates all but the first ocurence of a core size: this is a
quick way to see what sizes of cores are available, but it will drop many
materials from the selection list.

Selection by figure allows searching for a single figure or excluding a single
figure. To search for several figures find one, tag the result, reset and
repeat.

A search by window area is useful when you know roughly how much winding area
you require.

'Gapped-cores' allows selecting or excluding cores with gaps.

Search by Ae*Aw - effective area times winding window - allows you to enter
search limits for this figure of merit.

Cross-reference to materials uses the Material-selection list - set from the
Material Menu - as a search criterion; finding all cores which use a material
found on the material selection-list.

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 1 Torroid, squared-wall   24 X                         47 Rectangular Bead
 2 EE, squared-wall        25 Torroid, rounded-wall     48 'Single-Slab' Core
 3 EI, squared-wall        26 Pot 2-slot no hole; alt   49 CC,UU Core
 4 CI,UI, squared-wall     27 Pot 2-slot, hole; alt     50 EE w mounting chnl
 5 CC,UU, squared-wall     28 RS core                   51 EE w mounting chnl
 6 DS, center-hole         29 RS core; touch-tone core  52 CC,UU, rounded
 7 Pot, 2-slot, hole       30 RM core                   53 CC,UU
 8 EC                      31 1-opening Q core          54 CC,UU
 9 ETD                     32 2-opening Q core          55 CC,UU
10 ETD, alt                33 PQ core                   56 CC,UU
11 EE, rounded             34 EP core                   57 CC,UU
12 EI, rounded             35 PM core                   58 ETD, rounded
13 EE, octogon center      36 CC,UU rect & circ leg     59 CC,UU
14 CC,UU, half-round wall  37 1-opening Pot core
15 CI,UI, half-round wall  38 1-opening Pot core, alt
16 DS, no center hole      39 CC,UU, octagonal legs
17 Pot, 2-slot no hole     40 Pot 2 slot & none
18 Pot, 4-slot, hole       41 Pot 4 slot & none, alt
19 CC,UU, half-round; alt  42 Pot 4 slot & none, step-gap
20 CI,UI, half-round; alt  43 Pot 2 slot & none, step-gap
21 CC,UU, rect., octal leg 44 FQ Core
22 CC,UU, round wall       45 EPC Core
23 CC,UU, squared, notched 46 Oval Bead
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Fair Rite Products Corp (Fair-Rite)                      Phone (914) 895-2055
  PO Box J, One Commercial Row, Wallkill, NY 12589       FAX   (914) 895-2629

Ferrite International - A division of Tempel Steel       Phone (312)-249-4900
  15280 Wadsworth Rd, Wadsworth, IL 60083

Ferronics                                                Phone (716) 388-1020
  45 O'Conner Road, Fairport, NY 14450                   FAX   (716) 388-0036

FDK America Inc
  East Region Office, 333 Sylvan Ave Third Floor,
  Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632                             Phone (201) 567-1900

Hitachi Metals America  see Dexter / Permag

Krystinel Corporation                                    Phone (201) 345-8900
  126 Pennsylvania Ave, Patterson, NJ 07503              FAX   (201) 345-1172

Magnetics                                                Phone (412) 282-8282
  900 E Butler Rd, PO Box 391 Butler, PA 16003           FAX   (412)-282-6955
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Micrometals Inc                                          Phone (714)-630-7420
  1190 N. Hawk Circle, Anaheim, CA 92807                 FAX   (714)-630-4562

Phillips Components, Discrete Products Div
  Main Office: 5083 Kings Highway, Saugerties, NY 12477  Phone (914)-246-2811
  Eastern US: 129 Morgan Dr., Norwood, MA 02062          Phone (617)-769-6884
                                                               (800)-343-1370
  Central US: 360 Beinoris Dr, Wood Dale, IL 60191       Phone (312)-860-7290
  Western US: 8589 Canoga Ave, Canoga Park, CA 91304     Phone (818)-998-7311
                                                               (800)-842-7711
  Canada: L.A. Varah Ltd., 504 Iroquois Shore Rd,
          Oakville, ONT L6H 3K4                          Phone (416)-842-8484

SEI
  IBS ELECTRONICS Inc., 2520 S Fairview,                 Phone  (714) 751-6633
  Unit Q, Santa Ana, CA 90704                            FAX    (714) 751-8159

Siemens                                                  Phone  (201) 321-3400
  Special Products Division, 186 Wood Ave South,                (800) 888-7729
  Iselin, NJ 08830

TDK Corporation of America                               Phone  (312) 803-6100
  1600 Feehanville Dr, Mount Prospect IL 60056
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Tempel Steel
  5990 West Touhy Ave, Niles, IL 60648

Thomson Passive Components Corp                          Phone  (818) 887-1010
  6203 Variel Ave, Unit A                                FAX    (818) 702-0831
  Woodland Hills, CA 91367

Tokin America Inc                                        Phone  (408) 432-8020
  2261 Fortune Drive, San Jose, CA 95131                 FAX  (408) 434-0375
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                                   Distributors

Dexter / Permag - Distributors for Fair-Rite, Hitachi, Krystinel, Magnetics,
Siemens, and others
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Atlanta Area: 6730 Jones Mill Court, Norcross GA 30092    Phone (404) 448-4998
Boston Area:  10 Fortune Dr, Billerica, MA 01865          Phone (508) 663-7503
Chicago Area: 1050 Morse Ave, Elk Grove Village IL 60007  Phone (312) 965-1140
Dallas Area:  1111 Commerce Dr, Richardson TX 75081       Phone (214) 699-1121
Los Angeles:  10631 Humbolt St, Los Alamitos CA 90720     Phone (714) 952-2091
Minneapolis:  14956 Martin Dr, Eden Prairie, MN 55344     Phone (612) 934-4635
New York:     400 Karin Ln, Hicksville, NY 11801          Phone (516) 822-3311
San Francisco 1159 Sonora Ct, Sunnyvale CA 94086          Phone (408) 738-1080
Detroit:      2960 South Ave, Toledo, OH 43609            Phone (419) 385-4621


Magnetic Metals Corporation - Distributors for Thomson CSF
  Hayes Ave at 21st St, PO Box 351, Camden, NL 08101      Phone (609) 964-7842

Repso Sales Company - Distributors for Thomson CSF
  2737 Via Orange Way, Suite 100, Spring Valley, CA 92078 Phone (619) 698-4899
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M H & W International Corporation - Distributors for TDK
14 Leighton Place, Mahwah, NJ 07430                       Phone (201) 891-8800
                                                          FAX   (201) 423-3716
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