A microcomputer network for the differential leucocyte count and the registration of red blood cell morphology

A microcomputer network is described for the scoring of the differential leucocyte count and the registration of white and red cell characteristics. On each terminal keyboard, keys are assigned to white cell fractions (10), erythroblasts (1), red (13) and white (3) cell morphology and for graduations 1+ to 4+. Duplicate counts on different microscopes are collected by the master, averaged and forwarded to a printer. In the future we hope to transmit results directly to the laboratory computer. The use of the system is not restricted to the differential leucocyte count. An intelligent scoring board can help to alleviate the time-consuming task of entering qualitative and descriptive results into a laboratory computer.