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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