FJW%mit-mc@sri-unix.UUCP (07/07/83)
From: Frank J. Wancho <FJW@mit-mc> As some of you may know the MACSYMA Consortium will be dissolved come 1 October, and we have been advised to make alternate plans because the future of the MIT-MC machine is not clear at this time. I have been making alternate plans for some three years now, and have new host up on the net which has space reserved to hold all of the files currently in MC:CPM; and then some, including all the archives for both lists, and all of CPMUG and SIG/M files... Unfortunately, we cannot keep the new machine up while no one is present in the building because we cannot consider the air conditioning system to be 100% reliable, and the building is in the middle of the desert... Thus, we are up only from 8:30am to 9:40pm MDT weekdays... So, we have devised a scheme to brute-force cut the power when the temperature reaches a critical point. This scheme requires either an externally controlled three-phase circuit breaker or some sort of relay-driven crow-bar switch, with a capacity of approximately 75-100 amps per leg! We have yet to find a solid lead on such a device, and hope that perhaps someone reading this mail can help. Address any replies directly to me, and not either list, please. Thanks, Frank
CHERRY.ES@PARC-MAXC.ARPA (07/07/83)
I don't expect Xerox to change in the next few years...Why not upload all files to [ERIE]<CPM>...? just a thought.