Happy New Year
2009,
I hope it has
all gone well for everyone this holiday season, in the 28 countries
this newsletter is sent to.
MasTec is celebrating
its 20th year of business.
MasTec is still
fundamentally the same company that started in 1989, a high tech
distributor / tradehouse.
We will be
running some specials to celebrate the success of 20 years also,
see Specials in the newsletter.
It also looks
like it is going to be a very busy year for MasTec, judging from
the early contacts we have had in January.
It is a grand
time to focus on what your business is about, as others are distracted
by the Financial State!.
Get your running
costs right is crucial at this time.
Time will heal
this situation world wide and in the mean time we can busy ourselves
in our chosen businesses and be innovative and intuitive.
All the best
for 2009 from all the staff here at MasTec.
MasTec
Staff Contacts :-
Please send Rob Maskell in Marketing
any updates on company details, any new staff members etc
Please contact our staff for
any products, Loyal, Saera, Dhara, Manasi are always pleased
to help
Rob Maskell
-- Moving On This Year
The owner of MasTec Ltd, Rob
Maskell is also celebrating 41 years of Professional Business
work and has decided this is the year he will move on and pursue
other interests in his life.
The MasTec Ltd is almost totally
run by staff now, with Rob having slowly withdrawn from the day
to day operation starting about 2 years ago.
He is still active in Smart Works
Systems but will be withdrawing from this also this year.
A Short History --
Rob started electronics as a
child and his first project he can remember (other than winding
RF tuning coils on old cardboard toilet rolls and shellacing
them with his brother Trevor when about 5), was using a small
signal germanium diode and a Ferranti XB102 germanium point contact
transistor to make a better Xtal set.
Progressing on from there, he
worked on tube radios and TVs for many years, even rebuilding
vintage radio sets from just after World War One.
Computer work started in 1968
on DEC PDP 8i, and S machines graduating to 8Es and PDP 11s and
LSI IIs. He also worked with IBM 360, 370s, HP 2116 and 1000
minis (RTE) and after micros were introduced a great variety
of models and technologies, 1802, 6502, 8080, Z80, 6800, 68000
etc etc.
He was involved in Bio Medical
research from 1968 to 1986 in Canada at the Kinesiology Dept
Simon Fraser Univertsity with collaboration with others at UBC
and Waterloo Uni. During this time he became deeply involved
with Atmospheric Gas Analysis and wrote papers on techniques
and calculations for atmospheric gases, resolving some long standing
historic issues to do with analysis of human performance using
gas analysis to measure metabolic rates and cardiac outputs.He
built the first full automated computerised VO2 Gas Anlaysis
system at this time also.
After this time period, he spent
the next 3.5 years in Europe helping to introduce and establish
National Instruments in various countries. He became the leading
proponent of LabVIEW Graphical Programming teaching several thousand
people all over Europe, finally leaving Europe from the last
post which was Milano Italy.
Returning to NZ in late 1989,
he established MasTec Ltd and has run the company since then.
MasTec has broken technical ground
in many areas over the years. Some firsts are :-
Graphical Programming, Virtual
Instruments, Medical Teaching Tools, MAC and PC Colour Scanners,
Low Cost UPSs, M2M Radio, Zigbee, Micro Core Modules, Graphical
programming for FPGA and DSP Real Time systems, Light Based Encoders,
Hot Swap Redundant UPSs, Ethernet & USB DAQ, IP Controlled
Reboot Systems, High frame Rate & Res CMOS Cameras, Integrated
Micro Wireless combos, PAC Distributed I/O systems and Low cost
Universal Voltage AC LED Lighting, Drop in Wireless Networks
etc etc.
MasTec has also trained 650 +
New Zealand, Australia and Pacific Island programmers in LabVIEW,
LabWindows and Measurement Studio.
MasTec has 10K+ UPS sites in
NZ and hundreds of Integration projects.
MasTec will continue to make
a large impression on the technical ability of Oceania in the
coming years as it moves forward with its excellent staff of
younger Sales Engineers.
Medical
- Anatomy
Until
Feb 15 -- Rabbit RCM5400W Micro + Wifi Combo dev kit is $149 USD
+ Handling - Rabbit