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Versatile high-performance liquid chromatographic computer system for solvent delivery, gradient control and data acquisition using the Commodore 64 personal computer.

C M Grisham·F Marquard·P L Jørgensen
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An interface for a high-performance liquid chromatographic system based on the Commodore 64 personal computer has been designed as an alternative to the expensive and somewhat inflexible solvent programmers and data acquisition systems offered by commercial manufacturers. The system consists of the Commodore 64 with a single disk drive and monitor, and an interface that directly controls the flow-rates of two Waters pumps for solvent delivery in either isocratic or gradient mode, as well as analog-to-digital conversion of chromatographic data and either graphic data output to a dot-matrix printer or digital-to-analog conversion for output to a chart recorder. The interface permits computer-controlled flow-rates of up to 10.0 ml/min, with an accuracy of 0.0047 ml/min at flow-rates of 4.1 ml/min and an accuracy of 0.03 ml/min at flow-rates of 10 ml/min. The software for data analysis permits tabulation of elution times and areas for the peaks in a chromatogram with an option for baseline correction. The data are stored on floppy disks together with information pertinent to the chromatogram (flow-rate, solvent composition, etc.).

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C M Grisham, F Marquard, P L Jørgensen. 1985-10-04. Versatile high-performance liquid chromatographic computer system for solvent delivery, gradient control and data acquisition using the Commodore 64 personal computer.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0021-9673(01)87360-x

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