TO RUN ADTAPE (I) SET UP EQUIPMENT. IN THE SUBJECT ROOM CHECK: CABLE FROM SENSORS PLUGGED INTO CONTROL BOX. SUBJECT'S SWITCH AND PUSH BUTTON IS CONNECTED TO 18 PIN JONES PLUG. EXTENSION SCOPE TURNED ON IF CALIBRATION IS USED. IN COMPUTER ROOM: APPROPRIATE MAC PANEL INSTALLED (______) INTERFACE POWER TURNED ON. COMPUTER POWER ON. (DO NOT LOCK) (II) DEADSTART OS/8: MOUNT SYSTEM TAPE (_______) ON UNIT 0. PUSH ALL SWITCHES BACK EXECPT THE THREE LABELED 'DEADSTART'. PUSH GREEN 'I/O PRESET' BUTTON. PUSH YELLOW 'DO' BUTTON. UNIT 0 SHOULD SPIN BRIEFLY. PUSH GREEN 'START-20' BUTTON. UNIT 0 WILL SPIN SOME MORE. WHEN THE TAPE STOPS, A '.' WILL PRINT ON THE TELETYPE INDICATING THAT OS/8 IS READY. (IF '.' DOES NOT PRINT, PUSH 'RETURN' UNTIL IT DOES.) ENTER THE CURRENT DATE; TYPE: 'DATE DD-MMM-YY' (EG: 14-DEC-78) (III) IN RESPONSE TO THE '.', TYPE: 'R ADTAPE'. WHEN THE PROGRAM STARTS RUNNING A DISPLAY WILL APPEAR REQUESTING A FILE NAME. TYPE IN THE FILE NAME (OVERWRITING THE X .AD) IF YOU MAKE AN ERROR TYPING, YOU CAN RECOVER BY PUSHING 'RUBOUT' OR THE SPACE BAR UNTIL THE CURSOR IS POSITIONED UNDER THE ERRONEOUS LETTER AND THEN RETYPING IT. WHEN YOU HAVE THE FILE NAME CORRECTLY DISPLAYED PUSH 'RETURN'. THE TAPES WILL SPIN BRIEFLY AND THEN THE DISPLAY WILL REAPPEAR. IF THE FILE NAME IS FOLLOWED BY A '?' THEN IT IS AN ILLEGAL NAME; RETYPE IT. IF THE FILE NAME IS FOLLOWED BY A '<-' THEN THE FILE ALREADY EXISTS. IF THE FILE NAME IS FOLLOWED BY A ' ' THEN YOU ARE CREATING A NEW FILE. WHEN THE FILE NAME IS CORRECT, PUSH 'RETURN' THIS IS THE PARAMETER DISPLAY. SET THE SAMPLE RATE, NUMBER OF CHANNELS, AND THE LIST OF CHANNELS TO USE. THEN PUSH 'ALT-MODE' (IV) THE 'MODE' DISPLAY WILL APPEAR. THE OPTIONS ARE: C ENTER CALIBRATION VALUES N NEW FILE NAME Q QUIT (RETURN TO OS/8) R READ (RESET) PARAMETERS S SAVE (MAKE PERMANENT) CURRENT FILE (WITH LENGTH = NLEN) T CALL TAPER (RECORD UNTIL ALT-MODE OR NO XL1) V VISUAL DISPLAY (AND PLOT) W WAIT FOR BEGINNING OF RECORD (THEN CALL TAPER) -W- SCREEN DISPLAYS 'BEGIN' (AND CLOSES RELAY 2) WHILE WAITING FOR XL1 TO GO LOW. WHEN ALL IS READY, TURN THE RECORD SWITCH 'ON'. RECORDING WILL START IMMEDIATLY AND CONTINUE UNTIL THE SWITCH IS TURNED 'OFF'. THE DISPLAY WILL RETURN TO 'BEGIN'. PUSH 'ALT-MODE' TO RETURN TO MODE DISPLAY. TAKE NOTE OF NLEN AT THIS POINT. -T- ANALOG DATA IS SAMPLED AND STORED IN CORE BUFFERS UNTIL IT CAN BE DUMPED TO THE SELECTED FILE. IF THE DATA RATE IS TO HIGH AND THE TAPES CANNOT KEEP UP, RELAY 1 IS CLOSED TO INDICATE THAT DATA IS BEING LOST. -V- IN THIS MODE THE CONTENTS OF THE TAPE ARE DISPLAYED ONE BLOCK AT A TIME ON THE SCREEN. A VERTICAL AND A HORIZONTAL CURSOR ARE ALSO DISPLAYED. THE NUMBERS IN THE UPPER LEFT INDICATE: THE X-COORDINATE OF THE VERTICAL CURSOR. THE VALUE STORED AT THAT X-COORDINATE. THE Y-COORDINATE OF THE HORIZONTAL CURSOR CONTROLS ARE: 0 REWIND TO BLOCK 1 1 BACK UP 8 BLOCKS RUBOUT BACK UP 1 BLOCK RETURN ADVANCE 1 BLOCK 2 ADVANCE 2 BLOCKS 3...9 ADVANCE 3...9 BLOCKS P ENTER PLOT MODE I MARK INITIAL TIME F MARK FINAL TIME S SET POINT AT CROSSHAIRS SHIFT N ^ ENTER MULTIPLE SET MODE SHIFT O _ EXIT MULTIPLE SET MODE < DELETE BACK TO FRONT OF BLOCK > DELETE FORWARD TO END OF BLOCK IN PLOT MODE THE CONTROLS ARE: 1...9,0 PLOT 1...9,10 BLOCKS RUBOUT RETURN TO VISUAL MODE ALT RETURN TO 'MODE' OTHER IGNORED UNLESS # OF BLOCKS HAS BEEN ENTERED (SCREEN IS BLANK) AFTER THE NUMBER OF BLOCKS IS ENTERED, THE FIRST SAMPLE IS DISPLAYED UNTIL ANOTHER CHARACTOR IS KEYED, AT WHICH TIME PLOTTING BEGINS. (PLOT MODE MAY BE USEFUL ONLY WHEN NUMBER OF CHANNELS = 1) -S- IF YOU USED -V- TO LOOK AT THE FILE, BE SURE NLEN IS AT THE LAST BLOCK. STEP THROUGH WITH -V- UNTIL LAST BLOCK TO BE SAVED IS BEING DISPLAYED. -C- WHEN 'C' IS TYPED, THE CURRENT CALIBRATION TRIAL NUMBER IS DISPLAYED IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER. FOR EACH CALIBRATION TRIAL THE SET OF CHANNELS IS SAMPLED FOUR TIMES. THE CALIBRATION DATA WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO FILL MORE THAN ONE BLOCK. IF A TRIAL WOULD OVERFLOW THE BLOCK THEN CALIBRATION IS STOPPED AT THAT POINT AND THE MODE DISPLAY RETURNS. NOTE: RELAY 1 IS CLOSED DURING CALIBRATION. (VI) THE THREE NUMBERS IN THE UPPER RIGHT OF SCREEN ARE: FILE ADDRESS, MAX BLOCK NUMBER, CURRENT BLOCK NUMBER (LENGTH OF NEW FILE) IN GENERAL 'ALT-MODE' WILL ALWAYS RETURN TO THE 'MODE' DISPLAY. (CURRENTLY 'ALT' IS INEFFECTIVE WHILE PLOTTING IS IN PROGRESS) (VII) TECHNICAL NOTES. KEEP XL1 TO GROUND TO MAINTAIN TAPING. WHEN XL1 GOES HIGH, TAPER SETS NIF (FINAL POSITION INDICATOR) AND FILLS THE REMAINDER OF THE BLOCK WITH DELETE CODES (-3000) TAPE FORMAT: FIRST BLOCK (NBLK+0) CONTAINS COMMON FROM NLEN. READ ONLY FIRST PAGE. SECOND AND SUCCESSIVE BLOCKS CONTAIN INTERLEAVED DATA; I=0,248,NADC. FOR A TOTAL OF NSPB 9 BIT INTEGERS. CODE 3000 INDICATES DATA ERASED OR NOT RECORDED. TO LOAD ADTAPE: R LOADER$*ADTAPE,SYS:RPARM,XYMOVE,VDISP,ADPLT,GCHAR *SYS:LIB12/L *SYS:MODE,DPARM,STSAM,TAPER/M$ $