CAMAPPLE: CAMAC interface to the Apple computer

Conference · Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5735647

Williams, S H; Oxoby, G J; Trang, Q H

The advent of the personal microcomputer provides a new tool for the debugging, calibration and monitoring of small scale physics apparatus; e.g., a single detector being developed for a larger physics apparatus. With an appropriate interface these microcomputer systems provide a low cost (1/3 the cost of a comparable minicomputer system), convenient, dedicated, portable system which can be used in a fashion similar to that of portable oscilloscopes. Here we describe an interface between the Apple computer and CAMAC which is now being used to study the detector for a Cerenkov ring-imaging device. The Apple is particularly well-suited to this application because of its ease of use, hi-resolution graphics peripheral buss and documentation support.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 5735647
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-2728-Rev.; CONF-811012-35; ON: DE82003563
• Resource Relation: Conference: IEEE symposium on nuclear science, San Francisco, CA, USA, 21 Oct 1981
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
CAMAC SYSTEM
INTERFACES
MICROPROCESSORS
CHERENKOV COUNTERS
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
IMAGE PROCESSING
PERFORMANCE
SPECIFICATIONS
COMPUTERS
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
PROCESSING
RADIATION DETECTORS
440104* - Radiation Instrumentation- High Energy Physics Instrumentation
990200 - Mathematics & Computers