A method of remotely monitoring a flow cytometer, comprising the steps of: a) producing a signal from said flow cytometer which varies based upon the presence, absence or amount of at least one particle characteristic in a plurality of analyzed particles; b) analyzing said signal with a first computer coupled to said flow cytometer to continuously convert said signal into a viewable data representation of change in the presence, absence or amount of said at least one particle characteristic in said plurality of analyzed particles, wherein viewable data representation means an intermittently updated graphical display generated by a device viewable by a first computer user to understand the functional condition of the flow cytometer; c) serving with said first computer in serial order temporary copies of a plurality of time bound data representation files of said viewable data representation of change in the presence, absence or amount of said at least one particle characteristic of said plurality of analyzed particles to a second computer without generating an amount of lag in analyzing said signal from said at least one flow cytometer, wherein a plurality of time bound data representation files of said viewable data representation includes a plurality of bit map representations or screen shots of the viewable data representation of change in the presence, absence or amount of said at least one particle characteristic in said plurality of analyzed particles intermittently generated at a pre-determined rate by the first computer, and wherein an amount of lag comprises a delay in the generation of the viewable data representation or in a function of the flow cytometer; d) processing said served temporary copies of a plurality of time bound data representation files with said second computer to correspondingly generate a first plurality of reduced byte data representation files retrievably stored in a second computer memory element; e) processing said served temporary copies of a plurality of time bound data representation files with said second computer to generate a second plurality of reduced byte data representation files retrievably stored in a second computer memory element, each one having fewer bytes than the corresponding one of said first plurality of reduced byte data representation files; f) serving with said second computer a requested portion of said second plurality of reduced byte data representation files to a third computer; and g) displaying each one of said portion of said second plurality of reduced byte data representation files in serial order with said third computer to provide a viewable reduced byte data representation of change in the presence, absence or amount of said at least one particle characteristic of said plurality of analyzed particles to a third computer user. a) producing a signal from said flow cytometer which varies based upon the presence, absence or amount of at least one particle characteristic in a plurality of analyzed particles; b) analyzing said signal with a first computer coupled to said flow cytometer to continuously convert said signal into a viewable data representation of change in the presence, absence or amount of said at least one particle characteristic in said plurality of analyzed particles, wherein viewable data representation means an intermittently updated graphical display generated by a device viewable by a first computer user to understand the functional condition of the flow cytometer; c) serving with said first computer in serial order temporary copies of a plurality of time bound data representation files of said viewable data representation of change in the presence, absence or amount of said at least one particle characteristic of said plurality of analyzed particles to a second computer without generating an amount of lag in analyzing said signal from said at least one flow cytometer, wherein a plurality of time bound data representation files of said viewable data representation includes a plurality of bit map representations or screen shots of the viewable data representation of change in the presence, absence or amount of said at least one particle characteristic in said plurality of analyzed particles intermittently generated at a pre-determined rate by the first computer, and wherein an amount of lag comprises a delay in the generation of the viewable data representation or in a function of the flow cytometer; d) processing said served temporary copies of a plurality of time bound data representation files with said second computer to correspondingly generate a first plurality of reduced byte data representation files retrievably stored in a second computer memory element; e) processing said served temporary copies of a plurality of time bound data representation files with said second computer to generate a second plurality of reduced byte data representation files retrievably stored in a second computer memory element, each one having fewer bytes than the corresponding one of said first plurality of reduced byte data representation files; f) serving with said second computer a requested portion of said second plurality of reduced byte data representation files to a third computer; and g) displaying each one of said portion of said second plurality of reduced byte data representation files in serial order with said third computer to provide a viewable reduced byte data representation of change in the presence, absence or amount of said at least one particle characteristic of said plurality of analyzed particles to a third computer user.