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- Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 13:03 EDT
- From: LOBSTER@northeastern.edu
- Subject: This is a HC2.0 stack which controls frame grabbers, a/d's ect.
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- This file contains the Laboratory Toolbox and It's associated
- help stack.
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- The LaboratoryToolbox is a Hypercard Stack which originated as a
- tool for teaching laboratory computing. It implements an object
- oriented "Laboratory Notebook" structure for the acquisition and
- management of sensor based data within a laboratory environment.
- The LaboratoryToolbox Stack is organized to support
- hypothesis testing. The home stack spawns Project stacks which
- organize the information and data objects which support the test
- of a hypothesis. Each Project Stack can spawn Experiment cards
- which organize the information and a set of Trial cards of a
- particular method for testing the hypothesis. Each Trial card
- organizes a set of Data Objects which support or trash the
- particular method of testing the hypothesis.
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- An Extensible Data Dictionary
- The LaboratoryToolbox only operates on Data Objects which have
- been defined in a Data Dictionary. Each Data Type defined in
- the Dictionary is either supported by the Instruments, Viewers,
- Handlers and Editors of the Stack or by applications accessable
- from the stack.
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- An Experimental Database
- Laboratory Toolbox operates within the framework of a set of
- Project Stacks. The Project stack consists of a Project Card,
- A Chronology Card, A PathList card, a set of Experiment Cards
- and for each Experiment Card a set of Trial Cards. As Data
- Objects are added to each trial they utilize or add to paths
- in the PathList card
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- An Extensible Set of Instruments
- Instrument cards implement a set of virtual instruments which
- perform data acquisition functions to control VCR's, Aaaps and
- Data Translation Frame Grabbers and GW Instruments Analog Interfaces
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- An Extensible Set of Handlers
- Handler cards control serial line peripherals, VCR's and CamCorders.
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- An Extensible Set of Viewers
- Viewer cards support display and review of table, analog and
- image data as well as videotapes.
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- An Extensible Set of Editors
- Editor Cards support display and alteraton of acquired analog and
- table data as well as some signal processing and statistical
- operations.
-
- Joseph Ayers, Associate Professor
- Marine Science Center,
- Northeastern University,
- East Point, Nahant, MA 01908
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