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In mid-October 2003,
the project took a several steps forward. The Ridge staff rigged up the
cabling of the instrument. The whole crew plus Josh then balanced the
telescope (see below). We got the 2Mass control room networked,
attached old monitors to the computers, and updated the boxes to
current versions of ssh(d). We ran a "smoke test," turning everything
on for the first time---and no smoke! Ted found old SCSI disks for us
which were sucessfully partitioned, formatted, and seen by the DOS
data taking computer. The DOS/Script code ran. We ran a trigger
(oscilliscope) to the Leach electronics box and were able to get noise
as expected from the electronics box. The TCS (and GPS box) worked as
expected. Wayne and Josh got on sky with the guider camera to test the
pointing and the tracking---it looked great over large slews in the
sky!
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