MCA FOCAL: A REAL-TIME PROGRAMMING SYSTEM FOR MULTICHANNEL ANALYSIS ON A PDP-9/PDP-15 COMPUTER.
N.Mex. (USA) Los Alamos Scientific Lab., L East, P.M. Aebersold · 1972
A programming system based on a modified FOCAL interpreter is described for a PDP-9/PDP-15 computer equipped with specific hardware.User programs written in FOCAL may be used to control the acquisition of multichannel pulse height data and perform data analysis.A switch panel and CRT display with a light pen are utilized to allow the user a high degree of interaction with the data acquisition routines.I.