Data transfer from Beckman LS 5800 liquid scintillation counters to IBM personal computers.
This communication describes a short routine in BASICA for the IBM-PC, written to collect data from a Beckman liquid scintillation counter. In the form presented here the routine converts incoming bytes into separate lines and saves these lines in a file. There are many possible applications for further use of the data in these files. A few suggestions are given as to the format in which data can be stored and how to process these data automatically after all samples have been counted. The only hardware needed is an asynchronous communications adapter for the IBM-PC and an RS232 cable.
D001330:Electronic Data Processing / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008838:Microcomputers; D012588:Scintillation Counting / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design