How would you like to analyze more than one of these at a time? Right now, your laboratory probably has a mass spectrometer, a gas chromatograph, a spectrophotometer. Maybe an Ν MR spectrometer, an X-ray diffractometer, an emission spectrometer. And you're acquiring and analyzing each set of data by hand. One at a time. Yet, right now, you could be analyzing the spectral plots from all these instruments at the same time. Because IBM is effectively marrying multiple instruments to the computer by putting the computer to work in a Labora tory Automation Based (LAB) system. A LAB system makes it possible for several instru ments to share just one IBM 1800 Data Acquisition and Control System. The computer records and massages the data acquired from the instruments, analyzes the data to provide meaningful information and, if desired, even controls the instruments. The information thus obtained can then be fed into an on-line System/360 for larger calculations, vast data bases, and interactive capabilities. To anyone still struggling with hand calculations, a LAB system can provide a number of concurrent benefits —release from manual tasks, greatly enhanced precision with greatly reduced turn-around time, consistency be
tween and within experiments, data validity checking. To name just a few. But there are more. Many more. Send us the coupon and we'll show you how IBM is making it both prac tically and economically feasible to run more than one analysis at a time. IBM Data Processing Division, Dept. 805-013 112 East Post Road, White Plains, Ν. Υ. 10601 Please send information on Laboratory Automation Based systems. Name Title. Company, Division Address City
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