APAR-AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING AND RECORDING
G. R. Bachand, J L Rogers, T. F. Marker · 1959
The gereral characteristics are describod of one of the apparatus systems to be employed in atomic weapons and components testing to automatically acquire in a digital machine language variables information transduced from force functions to common analogs of voltage and frequency. Provisions are made for programming the operation from punched tape to direct control function commands to the device under test and multiplex multichannel inputs to the digitizers. The system is of modular construction providing flexibility for application to a broad class of testing operations. Transistorized circuitry is utilized practically throughout. Programs are stored in punched tape, and output data are punched into dual paper tapes. Provisions are made to enter identifying data separately. The output tapes are appropriately arranged to conveniently provide displays from auxiliary data processors for quality and reliability determination and entry into a digital computer for long-term data processing. (auth)