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From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: MicroVAX Meltdown
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.183958.5267@nmt.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 18:39:58 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.192444.22258@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1991Mar20.161229.27817@news.larc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
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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