Title
The small computer in the chemical laboratory
Catalog Number
102740270
Type
Moving image
Description
This film presents an introduction to basic computing principles, featuring specific technologies such as accumulators, buffers, logic circuits, ferrite core memories, bits, octal equivalents, programming languages, assembly languages and signal averaging. Hardware from the Digital Equipment Corporation is featured throughout, including the PDP-8, PDP-1, and the 1520. In addition to general computing principles, the film features a discussion of computing applications specific to chemical laboratories, such as mass spectrometry.
Date
ca. 1970
Credits
VPI (VA Polytechnic Institute) Chemistry Dept.
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Chemistry Department
Format
Betacam SP
