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Automation of a guarded hot plate thermal conductivity instrument

L.L. Holland

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The Thermo-Physics Corporation's GP-1800 guarded hot plate thermal conductivity instrument has been automated using a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP 11/35 minicomputer with an Industrial Control Subsystem Remote. Automation included constructing a hardware link between the instrument and the minicomputer system and designing, writing, and documenting software to perform equipment control, data acquisition, data reduction, and report generation. The software was designed and written so that non-programmers can run the thermal conductivity experiment.

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Key concepts: Minicomputer, Automation, Software, Instrument control, Data acquisition, Computer science, Thermal conductivity, Computer hardware