Disclosed is an immunoassay method whereby a 5. Groupings of the initiating devices in the fire alarm system are determined entirely automatically. The communication processing device has an examining system that examines whether a request for the status information is received from the another terminal device. Inner and outer bags are useful for creating the two vacuum environments with a perforated tool intermediate the two. Advantages of the invention include the ability to provide high bandwidth communications between computer systems and memory in an efficient and cost-effective manner.