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- NETWORK WORKING GROUP James C. Norton (SRI-ARC)
- Request for Comments #416 7-NOV-72
- NIC #12542
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- THE ARC SYSTEM WILL BE UNAVAILABLE FOR USE DURING THANKSGIVING WEEK
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- The ARC PDP-10 system will be unavailable for ARC and NIC users
- from Friday, November 17 (6:00 pm PST ) through Sunday, November
- 26. (10:00 pm PST). This will give our hardware team a period of
- nine days to work on equipment with a loss of only three SRI
- working days to users (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.)
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- This is the Network Information Center's notice to its network
- users of the schedule.
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- In addition, a login message will be sent starting about 6
- November to all users showing schedule.
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- It will read something like: "THE ARC/NIC PDP-10 SYSTEM
- WILL BE UNAVAILABLE FOR USE FROM FRIDAY NOV 17 (6:00 pm
- PST) THRU SUNDAY NOV 26 (10:00 pm PST) FOR MAJOR HARDWARE
- WORK AS OUTLINED IN (12542,)".
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- For those who are interested, the hardware facility work to be
- done during this period will include:
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- Removal of the Bryant disk, Bryant disk controller and
- Cybernex drum-disk interference.
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- Moving the Tasker display system and DEC dispack (old and
- new) equipment to their new locations.
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- Having Bryant people run a combination drum maintenance and
- training session to teach ARC people how to change heads and
- clean the drum.
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- Redoing the power cabling to the drum.
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- Putting the new signal cable in between drum and controller.
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- Debugging the parity checker.
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- Making a check of all main signal levels in XCORE.
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- Debugging the new cable from the parity checker to XCORE.
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- Wiring the parity bit through the Cybernex XCORE interface.
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- Getting any necessary power wiring done.
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- Building a wall for the next dispack location.
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- [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
- [ into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the ]
- [ direction of Alex McKenzie. 1/97 ]
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