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			      EQUIPMENT

11/45 memory:	No change - TED.

New Ampex	No change - TED.

Arms:		Gold arm all at Vicarm; to return in a couple of months - TOB.

Foonly channel:	Still flakey - JBR.

Modems:		Two Vadic 1200/1200 modems for Dialnet overdue - LES.

New KBD scanner: Ordered from DCA.  Delivery scheduled for 1 May - TED.

Megastore:	2 million word memory ordered for delivery within 6 months.
		A 512k loaner due within a month - LES.

9-track tapes:	Calcomp looks like the best buy.  Financing being worked out - LES.

			    SYSTEM PROGRAMS

Operating system:  Uptime for March was 98%, including systems that lasted 104 hours
		and 205 hours - JBR.

SPY:		Message to users of multiple DD channels should be initiated more
		quickly when we are saturated (it currently waits up to 5 minutes)
		- LES.

			     DOCUMENTATION

HOW		ALS is compiling summary documentation on all programs in [1,3]
		as well as some others.  An E file called "HOW" is being organized
		by topic (e.g. "text editors") with each program described in one
		logical page of up to 100 lines.  It will be put in [UP,DOC] shortly
		- LES.

WAITS		A short title has been needed for our operating system.  A spirited
		discussion and a complex voting procedure led to the selection
		of "WAITS", with the expansion left to your imagination
		(e.g. "Wizard's Arcanely Incongruous Timesharing System").