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Under construction in landlocked Switzerland, of all places, Oxy is the brainchild of a Swiss electronics engineer named Jean-Claude Protta, 32. An avid ocean sailor, Protta took a 15-month, 12,000-mile cruise and came home in 1971 with a headful of ideas about new electronic equipment for navigation. He brought his plans to Oxy Metal Industries International (O.M.I.I.), a division of Occidental Petroleum, which was looking for new applications for metal oxide semiconductors (MOS)-the tiny components that engineers use to cram extremely complex circuits onto silicon chips less than a quarter of an inch square...
...Course. Protta, who soon became head of the Swiss firm's new subsidiary, Oxy Nautica, wants the 56-ft. Oxy to demonstrate his gadgetry. Other firms make and market equally sophisticated devices, but few offer equal versatility and most require far more power. The Oxy has integrated all its equipment so that a surprising complexity of information appears on a control panel that would not be out of place in the cockpit of a 747. Almost everything the skipper needs to know-from the depth of the water under his keel to the wind speed and direction...
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