On-Line
Data-Acquisition Systems
in
Nuclear Physics, 1969
Ad Hoc Panel on On-Line Computers in Nuclear Research
Committee on Nuclear Science
National Research Council
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Washington, D.C.1970
This is a report of work under Contract NSF-C310, T.O. 47 between the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences and under Contract AT(49-1)3236 between the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the National Academy of Sciences.
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[PREFACE]
The first digital electronic device employed to collect nuclear data was the binary electronic counter (scaler) of the 1930's. In the next decade single and multichannel pulse-height analyzers appeared, still using vacuum tubes. In the 1950's the development of multichannel analyzers continued vigorously, with vast improvement of the analog-to-digital converter sections and with the introduction of computer-type memories, based first on acoustic delay lines and a short time later on ferrite cores. The replacement of vacuum tubes by transistors beginning in the latter half of the 1950's accelerated the pace of development and application of all types of electronic laboratory instruments.