LabPro has now been shipping for four months, and what a four months it has been at Vernier! Since the first LabPro units went out the door on May 15, we have shipped almost 10,000 units! Even though some early orders were delayed by a greater than expected demand, as well as a world-wide chip shortage (thanks to cell phones), we are now nearly caught up with orders. We anticipate being completely caught up in early September.

LabPro has been well received at many spring and summer workshops. At over 40 of our own workshops, as well as many other third-party summer workshops, teachers saw how easy it is to collect data using this versatile new product.

The best news of all came at the American Association of Physics Teachers Winter 2000 Meeting, where LabPro was selected as the winner of the Most Innovative New Product award!

In addition to this good news, we have also heard very favorable responses to the twenty new auto-ID sensors we started shipping concurrently with LabPro. When you start up our Logger Pro or DataMate programs with a Vernier auto-ID sensor connected to LabPro, a calibration, label, and unit is loaded, and a live reading is displayed!

In May, we released the new LabPro versions of our ten lab books. These manuals were rewritten for both computers and calculators (using our new DataMate program), and include the word processing files of each experiment on CD.

To our customers who had to wait to receive their initial LabPro orders, we offer our sincere thanks for your patience. We hope you will understand what a huge task it has been redesigning literally every major product at Vernier Software & Technology.