The machines in the fifth floor laboratory comprise two PC's running Linux and six 486-PC's for general use and projects in the computer lab, plus a further ten PC's associated with experiments. These include two connected to digital oscilloscopes and two with video-capture cards. . A further twenty 486 PC's are being deployed on experiments. . Undergraduates also have access on the ground floor to the Faculty Postgraduate Cluster comprising thirty Pentium PC's with full internet facilities. Floppy discs written on machines not belonging to the department present a danger of introducing viruses to the network.
Virus checkers are available on all machines.