1. An automotive service equipment system for use in conducting a diagnostic analysis of vehicle components, the automotive service equipment system having at least one measurement device, a data input controller and at least one networked controller coupled to the data input controller over a data transmission network; the measurement device being operatively coupled to the data input controller and configured to provide signals to the data input controller representative of a vehicle diagnostic state; the data input controller comprising a first microprocessor, a first memory coupled to the first microprocessor and an output device coupled to the first memory; the at least one networked controller comprising a second microprocessor and a second memory; wherein the first microprocessor accesses the second memory through the second microprocessor over the data transmission network to convert the signals into an output at the output device indicative of the vehicle diagnostic state.