There was a problem with the new instrument computers that can not use the ISA interface cards needed to communicate with the detector controllers. As a solution a piggy-back board has been developed that can plug into the existing interface board. A prototype board was designed, built and tested and found to work and so we are know proceeding to get several boards made for all the interface cards plus spares.
A new RAID server with a hard disk with a capacity of nearly 1Tb was installed, configured and tested. At a later stage this will also host the image reduction pipeline.