"Sure, we are, but running the telescope is just part of our action." Dottie was always completely serious whenever she discussed her career. "It’s all about leveraging digital instruments with the Net. We’re building the world’s biggest star archives here. Lots bigger than MAST or HEASARC. They’re already using us for their backups and mirror-sites, because our bandwidth is so hot. We’re the only physical backbone that NSFnet has crossing the Continental Divide. We’ve got tremendous pipes, stacks of equipment, machines we haven’t even unwrapped yet. Racks and racks of numerical simulators. It was ‘pre-owned’ by the feds, but we’re astronomers, so that doesn’t matter to us. We’re like kids in a candy store."