[HECnet] TOPS-10 D-Day, DECnet failure on November 9th is less than six days away --> 10-nov-2021

[Thomas DeBellis]

Well, I did post the patch a 'awhile' ago...  Meaning, I don't 
remember!  You should also check your Tops-10 system date, just in case 
it thinks differently.  What's the node name?

VENTI:: is offline, so I hope our patch didn't take it out of commission...

Tops-20 does not have the COM911 issue, so no complaints are what you'd 
expect.  I don't have any, but I'll take a peek at my error log later 
just to see what might be sneaking in there.

On 11/9/21 6:28 PM, R. Voorhorst wrote:
> L.S.
>
> Decnet still running here without bugs on 5 tops10 and one 4 Tops20 of which
> 1 is a Panda and 3 are even Tops20 V4.1.
> So have to check the code if repairs were already in place a long time ago
> ...
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Reindert
>
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> Subject: Re: [HECnet] TOPS-10 D-Day, DECnet failure on November 9th is less
> than six days away
>
>
>
>> On Nov 7, 2021, at 7:03 PM, Thomas DeBellis<tommytimesharing at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Ugh, the larger ones all made a racket, even an 11/05 in a rack.  An 11/40
> really did, particularly did because you had sit close to it to use the
> GT40.  I don't remember an 8/E being that bad.
>> But 10's and 20's?  Ouch.  The machine room at Marlboro that I used had a
> pile of KL's, KI's and a KA in it.  2116, 2012, 2136, 1031 come to mind, but
> there had to be three times that list.  What a racket.
>
> One of the nice features of CDC mainframes (the 60 bit machines) is that
> they were rather quiet.  That's because the mainframe was liquid cooled,
> with water cooling of the refrigeration machinery.  Only external boxes like
> the console and outboard peripheral controllers had cooling fans.  The
> machines I worked on had the disk drives in another room (one floor down)
> which put all that noise away from the operators.  Being able to talk to
> your colleagues without shouting was quite nice.
>
> 	paul
>
>
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