The Chromonitor, A Colorful Dynamic Graphic Display Terminal

The Bevatron has associated with its acceleration cycle many parameters which vary in a dynamic manner throughout that cycle. Control and monitoring of such parameters is now done largely by computer, so that many variables formerly in the analog realm and easily observed on the conventional oscilloscope are now in the digital realm and not easily observed. The Chromonitor is a device which has been developed to accept inputs from computers or the analog realm and display on a TV screen any or all of sixteen different parameters which may be associated with particle acceleration and delivery, or which may be pertinent to monitoring a computer process in progress. Each of the parameters may be displayed in any of seven colors.