Re FACS PC Acquisition
Geoffrey W Osborne (gwo215@cscgpo.anu.edu.au)
Thu, 22 Apr 93 11:26:34 EST
As Dave Coder states acquisition on a PC from a FACS440 is quite feasable and
was used here for two years or more before upgrading of the Instrument. The
software we wrote enabled 8 or 10 bit data storage, and using double buffering
data could be aquired at up to 18,000 cells/second, although the FACS440 wasn't
exactly performing as a precision instrument at this rate, more like a fire
hose! If you have access to a good enough programmer with adaquete time most of
the problems you can run into will be ironed out. If you want to do it yourself
I'd recommend the National Instruments board which we used for acquisition of
the data as it comes with all the low-level handshaking already written in C.
Hope this helps,
Geoff Osborne
FACS LAB,
John Curtin School of Medical Research,
Australian National University,
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA.
Email: Geoff.Osborne@anu.edu.au
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