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C00002 00002	SYSTEM MEETING							7 March 1979
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SYSTEM MEETING							7 March 1979
			      EQUIPMENT

11/45 memory:	No change.

New Ampex	Limbo.

Megastore:	Ran tests with 2-way and no-way interleaving.  With severe
		IO load and the cache turned off and only the Megastore
		being used for memory, it could be made to fail in 2-way
		interleave mode - ME.

DCA scanner:	Still awaiting replacement parts.

Ampex Discs:	LLL & DEK drives finally shipped back to Ampex in El Segundo.
		Disk controller making parity errors in control store; spare
		card should be repaired - ME.

9-track tapes:	Limbo - LES.

Datamedias:	Order placed for 10 new terminals, plus one for RPG - LES.

UDS modems:	Two new modems from LLL awaiting phone lines - LES.

Varian Plotter:	TED will design interface under contract - LES.

MG10A:		Died of overtemperature 4 times last month - ME.

			PROGRAMS

WAITS:		February uptime 93%.  Work proceeding on generalized display
		service, as described in DPYSER.TXT[1,ME] - ME.

RSL:		Jungle time experimentally extended to 5pm-8pm, per request from ME.

			RUMORS

Xerox:		Xerox is offering the Computer Science Department a Dover
		(high speed, high resolution XGP-like printer), an Ethernet,
		and some number of Altos - LES.