The Birth of a DUAL VAX-11/780

[utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!ks]

Hearing the constant flow of bug reports, we just thought we would mention
that things sometimes go right for computer people.  Specifically,
George Goble, Curt Freeland and company of Purdue University Electrical 
Engineering Department have been doing an exceptional job lately.
The following is an excerpt from the dual780 mailing list release of Friday:

	On Tuesday, March 16, a VAX-11/780-CP (CPU only + 
	Memory ctrl + UBA) arrived from Newman Used Computer at 5PM.
	It was setup and checked out in 2 hours and ran diagnostics
	overnight. On Wed, Mar 17, over "lunch hour" it was connected
	to an existing single 11/780 to make another dual780.  The
	cabling took 20 mins. Another hour was used to find a bad
	SBI cable and a M8219. It has been running UNIX production
	ever since.
	--ghg

We the users of the Purdue EE systems congratulate them on bringing up
such a system in so little time (approx. 20 hours).  We saw the VAX 
cabinet rolling down the hall on one day, and the very next afternoon,
we were using it for our computing needs.

					Kirk Smith
					Bill Bean
					et. al.
					Purdue EE