On Saturday 03 January 2009, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote:
>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
>
Hillarious, thanks.  Now, if only my experience with that PDP-11/23 could have 
been that good.

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