Abstract
Today, there are few bio-medical use computers in the true sense of the term, because most computers are designed and manufactured for general uses.
Nevertheless, computer application in medical and/or bio-medical fields is no longer in the minority but is becoming the majority in the total number of computers in use. This article presents a brief explanation of a bio-medical computer how it is and how it will be.
PDP-12 recently developed by DEC is a succcessor to the former model LINC-8, noted as the world's first bio-medical computer. PDP-12 has great flexibility both in hardware configurations and software system than the LINC-8 and encourages bio-medical scientists with its ease of handling.
This article presents several requirements needed for bio-medical computers which differ from the so-called general purpose computers.
