Sorry, a bit more spam, but SDSS was a project all of us were very proud of.
Here's a paper for an IEEE Realtime Conference talk I wrote about the data acquisition system which also details the various instruments:
SDSS operated one of the very first web servers in the United States.? Well before Google existed (but Alta Vista was already around), we implemented in 1995 a search engine using WAIS that allowed the astronomers to do context sensitive searches through all of the documentation.?
For more about SDSS, see and in particular .?
