Microcomputers in the Laboratory

At the bottom end of the scale, many cheap 8-bit microcomputers are finding their way into analytical applications. These include machines such as the Apple and the Commodore PET (which incorporates the IEEE-488 bus) as well as many others. Although computers such as these lack the computing power and sophisticated interfacing abilities of the MINC, there are many applications for which they are quite powerful enough, whilst their low prices enable them to be used in a wide range of situations where computers have not previously been employed for reasons of cost. The impact which microcomputers and microprocessors have had upon analytical instrumentation is reviewed in Ref.7). 

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Analysis-82, Microcomputers in the laboratory (Conference), United Trade Press, London, 1982. Barker, P., Computers in Analytical Chemistry, Pergamon, Elmsford, New York, 1983. 

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