13 Feb
2009
13 Feb
'09
1:20 a.m.
Fascinating, in the early 80's I ran a FTIR
(Fourier Transform Infrared) spectrometer that
was attached to a Nicolet 1080.
The system had a Diablo 42 disk I seem to
remember. You would have to wait for the thing
to spin up before booting. It would digitize the
FTIR signal and perform the required FFT's to obtain the infrared spectrum.
It had some kind of Nicolet software that would
do the spectral processing. It also had a
Fortran compiler which I used to do some specialized processing.
If you got a picture it sure would bring back old memories.
Doug
At 09:19 PM 2/11/2009, you wrote:
Hi
I have a Nicolet 1080 computer. It has 20 bits.
They also made a 1280 as well. The 1080 was used
mostly to do FFT's in a chemical MR machine. It
was used for other analog data logging as well.
There are only 4 of the 1080 machines that I know
of that are still in existance.
Three are in my general area of the world one in the
UK.
Dwight
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