Laboratory Instrument Computer LINC

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As computer components became faster and cheaper over time, the LINCs ultimately were replaced by newer machines. However, the LINC ideas stuck; much laboratory research was transformed. The evaluation program had demonstrated conclusively that, with a LINC, experiments could be designed and executed more quickly and efficiently. But, more importantly, LINC had stimulated new insights into biomedical processes, knowledge that could only be gained with on-line, hands-on experiment control. Today, LINC's descendants have become the sine qua non of the biomedical laboratory.