Here are a few ideas of how you can set up an inexpensive CODA system. If you already have a Decstation 500 or a HP 7xx workstation, then you need only to purchase a crate controller. There is presently one supported crate controller, and two possibilities coming up. CODA now supports the CES 2117 camac crate controller. It runs vxWorks and communicates with your host via ethernet.
Workstation have SCSI ports.
These can then be linked with the CODA readout controller code. If you need to buy a new computer for your data acquisition system. Please make sure you get video and ethernet cards supported by Linux. If you have a PC which you can upgrade, or some existing Camac Controllers which can be interfaced to a PC, you will save some money. The CODA port should not be impossible since the Linux C compiler is GCC, the same compiler that is used by the CODA data acquisition developement group.