In the near future many hardware components of the control system for the 30m telescope will be replaced by more modern equipment. For all major topics related to the NCS we are working on reports detailing our plans and proposals. As soon as 1st complete versions of these reports are ready, they will be announced on our WWW site and in the IRAM Newsletter in order to invite a general review and comments.
More comments are always welcome.
The Remote Observing Station consists of a Linux computer with an ISDN interface. OTF data, however, is not transferred because of the high data volume. In this case, the remote observer can do the data analysis via network on a computer at the telescope. More installations of this kind are foreseen in Paris and Madrid.