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Since 1974 Cancer Therapy Research has been conducted at the Clinton P. Anderson Meson Physics Facility, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico using negative pi-mesons. Through 1977 all treatments will have been static scan treatments, during which a DEC PDP-11/45 computer was used to monitor, record and verify channel and treatment parameters. This computer system has an RSX-11D operating system, and communicates with hardware via CAMAC. Beginning in 1978, dynamic scan treatments will commence and the patient will be moving during the treatment. A PDP-11/03 microprocessor will be used to move the patient in three dimensions and one rotation, and to control beam-modification devices such as slit jaws and a variable-thickness range shifter. Simultaneously the treatment will be monitored and verified by the PDP-11/45 computer.