Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop
From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3b1 Reliability
Message-ID: <405@stech.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 88 01:56:38 GMT
References: <165@flatline.UUCP>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
Lines: 39

in article <165@flatline.UUCP>, erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) says:
> 
> 
> In article <655@pttesac.UUCP>, vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers) writes:
> 
>> I am *very* tired of having a flaky system.  I'd like to know just
>> what the repair call rate is for these units.
> 
> I would too, but I think it's higher than you think.  We have 4 7300's and
> 4 3b1's at work, being used for development, and have only had to call
> the repairman *twice* in two years:  1 bad power supply and one hard
> drive that forgot what type it was -- they replaced the p/s on the
> first one, and the whole machine on the second one (they weren't
> sure if it was the hard drive or not.)
> 
> I think that's a pretty good record for eight medium-high use machines...
> -- 

I ran a bbs on a 7300 for nearly two years.  The machine was up 24 hours a
day for most of that period.  Toward the end, the hard disk started to
get a bit flaky, but only after a hacker tried to break into the system
repeatedly for over two hours one night.  I'm actually very impressed with
how reliable the machine was, considering how heavily it was used.  (We've
since gone to a 3B2 with more disk space, which is really the primary
reason we switched - not reliability.)


Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
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