A reliable and inexpensive microprocessor system for collection and transfer of raw immunoassay data

A very low cost microprocessor system has been designed to ease data handling problems in a large workload immunoassay laboratory. The microprocessor collects and stores data from many immunoassay detection devices simultaneously, and transfers the data to a minicomputer for analysis as each measurement batch is completed. Stored data are protected against a mains power failure during collection and against non-availability of the minicomputer at transfer time. The system provides fast and reliable transfer of very large amounts of raw data from measurement devices to computer, and therefore facilitates the use of a statistically sound data reduction software package.