Power interlocks (was Re: [OT] Alphaserver Oops!)

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Thu Nov 12 17:33:39 1998

At 06:52 AM 11-11-98 -0800, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:

>He's right - I had no clue what I was up to, and so I really shouldn't have
>been
>poking about. Which is why there's a DEC service engineer on his way here
now.
>Wonder what he'll think of my DEC toys...

Well, if you get the usual "modern" Digital FS person, he/she won't even
recognize the equipment. About 5 years ago we hosted a DECUS meeting here
at La Trobe and two of us set up an 11/44 running BSD2.11 to celebrate the
25th anniversary of Unix (or some such excuse).

We managed to kill the RL controller and as this was a DECUS event, we were
asked to call FS to come and repair the system whilst charging the call to
a Digital account.

Trying to log the call was interesting ("a PDP-11/44 - I'm sorry we don't
maintain them - are you sure it's a Digital product") and even more fun
when the engineer came out and said something like "hey, I've never seen
one of these before". I just took the board, swapped it, ran diagnostics
(OK, I booted 2.11) and sent him on his way :-)

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