Major problems were encounter with the new instrument computers. It has not been possible to get them to work properly with the old ISA PC interface card needed to interface with the detector controllers. Test are currently being made to try to get it to work, and we are also looking for alternatives.
A new RAID hard disk system with a capacity of nearly 1Tb was purchased together with a gigabit network switch with the idea of increasing the speed and capacity of the data acquisition system. However, at the moment it is not possible to install this system as the current old instrument computers have outdated operating systems which can not incorporate this system.