ESRF 1st generation beamline control 1990 - 1994

• VME + OS9 for input/output + detectors (image plates, CCDs, gasfilled detectors)

• Ethernet 10 Mbit/s

• Unix workstations

• Device servers on VME

• SPEC

• Observations :

• • No database
  • No central facility
  • No online data reduction