It's Never Easy

["Tom Droege" <droege@snapmail.us>]

After a long struggle and with a lot of help from Rob Creager I got his
software installed on a new system.  This is to be the prototype of
systems for tom1 to tom5.

I went to plug in the ISA memory card.  The chassis has been built to
block any possible insertion of a full sized ISA board.  So not only do I
have to find motherboards with ISA slots (not easy these days) but cases
that can be chopped to give space for a big ISA card.  Sigh!  It never
ends.

However, I have a milling machine and a band saw.  These will solve the
problem.

But it will end, and soon I think.  Then we will have 5 systems taking
lots of data.

Now that I am taking data with fixed tiles, there is indication that
quality of the sky makes a difference.  You all told me that it should,
but I could not see it before since the error with position overshadowed
the error due to a bad night.  So I will be able to set parameters to
choose the best data.  Looks like 5 systems will take less data than 3
systems but it will be better quality.

Tom Droege