CAMAC: a modular standard

With the digital computer extending its sphere of influence from the well-established techniques of business and scientific data processing to real-time data logging, monitoring, and control of scientific experiments and industrial processes, there is a definite need for a computer-independent method of interfacing the process or experiment with the computer. Because a modular approach to interfacing, coupled with the broad benefits derived from standardization, introduces a whole range of advantages to a computer interface system, CAMAC has emerged as a user-developed modular instrumentation and digital interfacing standard that is particularly appropriate for computer-oriented data and control systems.