Re: Some TOPS20 memories..

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From: w... Bill Fenner
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 04:39

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In article <1989Dec19.0...@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> schw...@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
|Well our engineering department has a DEC-10, and its not going to be
|put to rest soon.... The engineers do their own maintainance on it,
|though.  The reason is that a few years back someone looked inside the
|(running) machine and saw that one of the power supplies had a hole in
|it, and a note from the DEC repairman taped to it saying "parts on
|order", and dated something like 1983.

Almost as good as our power conditioner.  There's been a note on it since
'84 or so that a new breaker is on order.  The breaker very nearly completely
refuses to reset after having blown.  It needs a *lot* of patience to get it
to work.  I heard rumors that they were doing something about it the other
day, but I don't believe it.  5 years just is too unbelievably short a
response time.
-- 
Bill Fenner                   w...@hcx.psu.edu             ..!psuvax1!psuhcx!wcf
sy...@hogbbs.fidonet.org (1:129/87 - 814/238-9633)     ..!lll-winken!/

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From: w...@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
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Subject: Re: Some TOPS20 memories..
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Date: 20 Dec 89 04:39:43 GMT
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