Macsys
A couple of months or so ago, Mark asked me if I
was willing to contribute to the ultra-thin silicon detector work being done
here, especially given that part of my salary was being paid out of that grant.
(I didn't know that part!) I agreed, eager to get back into the lab anyway.
Last month, my assignment was to get Macsys up and running. Macsys is an
ancient multichannel analyzer about the size of a small laundry machine; it has
about 24 channels (or is it 32?). It was ancient when I was a grad student. It
is controlled by a Mac (running as a terminal via RS232 to the FORTH system
onboard Macsys), and data is read by a Sparcstation. I got Minerva to revive
the old Sparcstation that was the data-acquisition computer, and I got the old
Mac up and connected. Everything has been moved to room 5. By yesterday, I
confirmed that the Mac was uploading the FORTH software correctly to Macsys, and
I was able to diddle a little with the Sparcstation, but I lacked some
privileges.
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Not
much else going on on STEREO for me. Every once in a while, a CPT or other test
is performed on FM1 and/or FM2 at APL, and I look at the data and report at our
data meetings. I've been working on a "run summary" plot
package.
Still need to get out my
Q-states paper.
Posted: Tue - January 24, 2006 at 01:18 PM