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From: silverstein@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (MARK SILVERSTEIN)
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Subject: Rev levels for hardware maintenance of VAX Nodes
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Date: 11 Jun 91 17:17:10 GMT
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     We recently lost our DEC hardware maintenance.  The contract was awarded to
a third party with whom we have no prior experience.  There are concerns in the 
lab as to whether or not the new maintenance provider will be keeping our 22
VAX, microVAX and VAXstation nodes in our cluster, plus their peripherals and
microcode at the appropriate rev levels.

     Does anybody know if DEC publishes or makes available for sale, current rev
levels and Field Change Orders (FCOs) as they become needed?  Such a guide would
make us feel a bit better about our unknown maintainer.

                                                          Mark Silverstein