CAMAPPLE: CAMAC interface to the Apple computer

Conference · Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6328712

Oxoby, G J; Trang, Q H; Williams, S 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, an interface between the Apple computer and CAMAC which is now being used to study the detector for a Cerenkov ring-imaging device is described. The Apple is particularly well-suited to this application because of its ease of use, hi-resolution graphics, peripheral bus and documentation support.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 6328712
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-2728; CONF-810539-5; ON: DE81025146; TRN: 81-013072
• Resource Relation: Conference: Conference on the application of microprocessors to high energy physics experiments, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 May 1981
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
42 ENGINEERING
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
CAMAC SYSTEM
INTERFACES
MICROPROCESSORS
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
USES
COMPUTERS
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
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440104 - Radiation Instrumentation- High Energy Physics Instrumentation