title: Microcomputer control of behavior and the acquisition of digital and analog data.
abstract: Advances in technology and decreasing costs are enabling microcomputers to displace more traditional devices in the scientific laboratory. The availability of various approaches to software-system development for the use of microcomputers in the on-line control of experiments has contributed to the trend. This report describes a software system developed to control conditioned behavior during schedules of reinforcement while simultaneously accumulating behavioral data and physiological (analog) data using a hardware system base on the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I microcomputer. The software utilizes a high-level interpretive language (Microsoft BASIC), assembly language and compiled BASIC to attain an acceptable execution speed and ease of programming.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003201:Computers; D003202:Computers, Analog; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D008838:Microcomputers; D009862:Online Systems; D012984:Software