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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga in the real world - a real application
Keywords: IEEE-488
Message-ID: <7112@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 89 01:31:18 GMT
References: <3100@shlump.dec.com> <11953@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <11953@s.ms.uky.edu> phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) writes:
$     Nope, he's talking about an IEEE-488 card. And (to my great surprise!)
$I found one yesterday! Or rather, I found an ad for one in a new catalogue
$[...] and is called the Amiga_GPIB. Uses the NEC uPD7210 controller,
$and plugs into a Zorro slot. Supports 14 IEEE-488 devices; multiple cards
$can be installed.
$     Made by ACDA, whoever that is.

Whoever that is, he says.  Well it just so happens that ACDA was doing
some seriously neat stuff with the Amiga the last time I checked.  They
have modified a Live! board and are using it for medical thermography,
that is, feeding the output from an EXPEN$IVE infra-red (heat sensing)
camera into the Live! board to look at heat pictures (thermograms) of
things.  If a person claims to be in pain in their shoulder for example,
a thermogram can prove it!  Areas of pain are generally hotter than
normal areas, and thermograms can show even minute differences in heat.

[His comment must'a triggered my rambling... :-)]

Anyway, ACDA - smart people on Long Island (I think).

$     Funny thing about this is that the PET used the IEEE-488 for its
$drive, printers, and modem. This is sort of a perverse full circle, eh?

The PET was way ahead of its time.

$    - R'ykandar.

	Paul.

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