This was the first microprocessor-based nuclear thickness gauging system in the world. In addition to managing this project and designing the sensor, I wrote a real-time, event-driven operating system for it - none was available for microprocessors at that time. In an August 1975 article titled "Microcomputer Teams Up With Beta Gauges", Paper Film & Foil Converter magazine described it as "a combination of technologies never before combined" and "a system that "ties a nuclear thickness gauge into a microcomputer - not a minicomputer, but a microcomputer."