At 12:02 AM 1/3/2009, you wrote: >Another war story was the time our VAX 11/780 was going to be used for a >huge finite element analysis run on a building's structure over the >weekend. It had all of 512 KB of memory! Well, right about 4:30 PM >Friday afternoon, it crashes! After some diagnosing, we discover one >memory board is kaput. I pulled the board, and told them it might still >run their analysis, but to be extremely careful about having a minimum >number of users logged on, and just let it run unmolested. They got it >done by early Monday morning, with just 256 KB of memory! > >Well, enough off-topic war stories! > >Jon
Never enuff war stories... ;-) Didn't happen to me, but it did happen while I was a VMS sysadmin and we had tons of VAX heavy metal running in the enviro rooms: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/89q1/vax.253.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
