ANTIC Interview 356 - Michael McInerney, physics experiments with Atari computers
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Michael McInerney, physics experiments with Atari computers\\xa0
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In the 1980s, Michael McInerney was a professor in the physics department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, when he wrote several journal articles about how to control experiments and gather data using Atari computers.\\xa0
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The articles included Interfacing the Atari Microcomputer in the Science Laboratory, which appeared in the spring 1983 issue of Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching; Game Port Physics - Introductory Experiments in Linear Dynamics, which appeared in the spring 1984 issue; and Computer-Aided Experiments with the Damped Harmonic Oscillator, which appeared in the October 1985 issue of American Journal of Physics.
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This interview took place on May 21, 2018.
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"The reviewers refused to believe I could do it which such cheap equipment. ... They said it wasn\'t possible to do it."
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