On 1/10/07, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote: It's a bus/cage standard for cards akin to VME, but with bus voltages like +/-6VDC and +/-24VDC rather than +/-5VDC (+/-12VDC is a latecomer to CAMAC), and with position-dependent addressing of cards (rather than address jumpers/switches as are common with VME where bus slots are typically identical). We had (have?) 4 CAMAC crates loaded with multi-channel ADC cards on AMANDA, the neutrino detector installed at Pole between about 1996 and 2000 (and which has been recently absorbed into Ice Cube, but that's a different story). We addressed all 4 CAMAC crates from a VME PPC processor via a VME<->CAMAC bridge card, as I don't think anyone made processors in CAMAC format (we also had other VME cards in the system, some stock, some purpose-built for the detector). I personally have never seen CAMAC cards used anywhere but in the context of physics labs and attendant equipment (particle detectors, etc). Stock cards tend to be data collection sorts of items. -ethan

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