Apur-ee.274 net.unix-wizards,net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!ks Sat Mar 20 15:37:06 1982 The Birth of a DUAL VAX-11/780 Hearing the constant flow of bug reports, we just thought we would mention that things sometimes go right for computer people. Specifically, George Goble, Curt Freeland and company of Purdue University Electrical Engineering Department have been doing an exceptional job lately. The following is an excerpt from the dual780 mailing list release of Friday: On Tuesday, March 16, a VAX-11/780-CP (CPU only + Memory ctrl + UBA) arrived from Newman Used Computer at 5PM. It was setup and checked out in 2 hours and ran diagnostics overnight. On Wed, Mar 17, over "lunch hour" it was connected to an existing single 11/780 to make another dual780. The cabling took 20 mins. Another hour was used to find a bad SBI cable and a M8219. It has been running UNIX production ever since. --ghg We the users of the Purdue EE systems congratulate them on bringing up such a system in so little time (approx. 20 hours). We saw the VAX cabinet rolling down the hall on one day, and the very next afternoon, we were using it for our computing needs. Kirk Smith Bill Bean et. al. Purdue EE ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.