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THE 4050 SERIES VOL. 5 NO.4
APPLICATIONS LIBRARY NEWSLETTER WINTER 1981
Tekniques
COMMITTED m EXCELLENCE
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Tekniques Nerve Development:
In This Issue Digitization and
Nerve Development Digitization . . . . . ..
4909 Hard Disk ....................
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7 Three-Dimensional
Computers Making Computers ........ 11
Character and Symbol ROM Pack ......
Input/ Output ......................
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Reconstruction from Serial
Larger Images from 4611 Hard Copy Unit
Graphing Contest Winners. . . . . . . . . . . .
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17 Sections
New GPIB Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Programming Tips .................. 18
BASIC Bits ....................... 22
New Abstracts ..................... 24
Package Corrections ................ 31
Library Addresses ............... , .. 32
Fig. I. Selecting fertile frog's eggs from a ,newly-laid batch at McGill University in Montreal, where
the author is on a special studies program. The embryos are used to obtain nerve and muscle cells for
tissue culture studies of development of connections between them.
TEKniques, the 4050 Series Applications by David F.Davey The size was small enough to require
Library Newsletter, is published by the Neurobiology Laboratory microscopy, yet large enough to require
Information Display Division of
Tektronix, Inc., Group 451, P.O. Box 500, University of Sydney serial sectioning to analyze a whole wing.
Beaverton, Oregon 97077. It is distributed N.S.W., Australia We quickly found that constructing a view
to TEKTRONIX 4050 Series l,lsers and of the rapidly developing limb from such
members of the 4050 Series Applications sections, often exceeding a thousand in
Library.
number, was a very difficult task. We
Publishing Manager Ken Cramer dreamed of computer techniques, but were
Managing Editor Patricia Kelley As a part of the Neurobiology Laboratory's discouraged by attempts of a colleague to
Editor Terence Davis continuing investigation of embryonic nerve make use of some 3-D architectural pro-
Technical Editor Dan Taylor development, Max Bennett, Kerrie Uebel
Graphic Design John Ellis
grams on a large computer. These methods
and I began a detailed study of the growth proved too compromised towards rectilinear
Circulation Rory Gugliotta
of nerves into the wing of the chick embryo. structures; finding out that much proved
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