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Re: MicroVAX Meltdown

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From: Ruth Milner
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 18:39
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In article <1991Mar20.161229.27817@news.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes:
>mms7r@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (M Mitchell Smith) writes:
>>Last night the ``right-angle'' cable harness between the power supply
>>and backplane in my BA23 MicroVAX II went up in a cloud of smoke
>
>   When this was discovered a few years back, DEC was giving out free 
>replacement cable harnesses.  

Not in Canada they weren't. But it doesn't surprise me to hear that, as usual,
things were better in (at least parts of) the U.S.
-- 
Ruth Milner
Systems Manager                     NRAO/VLA                    Socorro NM
                            rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
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From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
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Subject: Re: MicroVAX Meltdown
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