An autonomous CAMAC crate controlled by a personal computer

A low cost version of an autonomous CAMAC crate has been realised using the personal microcomputer TRS 80 for programmed control. To keep the hardware development and production effort low, the serial CAMAC crate controller type L2 is used. In this case the necessary interface may be a very simple and inexpensive one. The CAMAC crate is equiped for a scaler experiment only, but extensions for the addition of a multichannel analyser in the same experiment are already available. The program is written in BASIC extended by a general CAMAC statement and some other useful expansions to the TRS-DISK BASIC. (orig.)