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Article #4548Power outages (was: Re: BESM-6...
From: SL... Roger Ivie
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 1990 16:40
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 1990 16:40
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In article <22...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca>, pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes: > > Our Vaxen would go "huh!?!" The machine would reset, > reboot and then fsck itself. It would recover and we could > do an "vi -r file" and go back to work. No wonder > everybody bought Vaxen. The competition was so awful. > Actually, the best machine I ever used for handling power outages was a PDP-8/e loaded with core. When the power flickered, the lights would blink and the machine would just keep on going where it left off. The -8/m loaded with MOS next to it would die and you had to toggle the bootstrap back in (no biggie; the RK05 bootstrap is only two words long). -- =============================================================================== Roger Ivie 35 S 300 W Logan, Ut. 84321 (801) 752-8633 ===============================================================================
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!uupsi!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!cc.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!slsw2 From: SL...@cc.usu.edu (Roger Ivie) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Power outages (was: Re: BESM-6... Message-ID: <35743@cc.usu.edu> Date: 22 Sep 90 16:40:25 GMT References: <9009190723.AA28919@lilac.berkeley.edu> <2245@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> <57592@microsoft.UUCP> <2261@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> Lines: 22 Posted: Sat Sep 22 17:40:25 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit