Re: Our New Machines

So, Paul, would it be goshe of me to ask what you are going to do with the
old machines?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "PaulMmn" <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 7:27 PM
Subject: Our New Machines


> For those sitting on the fence about a system upgrade, GO FOR IT!
>
> We completed our conversion from a pair of model 640s to a pair of
> 825s the weekend after Thanksgiving.  Conversion was reasonably
> straight forward (although we wrote our own book).
>
> The speed of the 6-year newer machines and disks is -very-
> impressive-- one job that used to take 20-24 hours to run ran in
> 3-1/2 hours!  WHOOO-HOOOO!!
>
> Users are complaining they can no longer submit a job and then go for
> coffee-- their jobs are finished before they can roll back their
> chairs!   (:
>
> I'm afraid users will be submitting jobs more than once--  "It
> -always- takes 30 minutes to run.  It finished too soon.  Something
> must be wrong!"
>
> Our next project (after the old machines are rolled out of the room)
> will be the cable removal party under the floor-- all those twinax,
> v.35, rs232, and other cables.  Maybe I can find the screwdriver
> blade I lost 6 or 7 years ago.  (:  If you have any need for v.35 or
> rs232 cables, let me know!
>
> --Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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