A SPECIAL PURPOSE DIGITAL COMPUTER (BIOMAC 500) USED IN ANALYSIS OF HUMAN ELECTROMYOGRAM

Electromyograms of voluntary effort in man have been converted into two pulse trains, using the analyser described by Fitch (1967). By feeding the pulse trains to simple counters and to a special purpose digital computer (Biomac 500) the following data are obtained: 1. 1. Total number of reversals of potential (turns) occurring in a pre-set period of time. 2. 2. Histograms of the intervals between individual turns. 3. 3. The accumulated amplitude of all potentials, both positive-going and negative-going, in a pre-set period of time. 4. 4. Histograms of the amplitudes of individual potentials. © 1968.