[13874] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Building 66 Printserver for cheme? LN03s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Baron)
Tue Mar 2 06:55:31 1993
To: John Chase <jchase@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: acs@Athena.MIT.EDU, op@Athena.MIT.EDU, hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU, cec@MIT.EDU,
From: dbaron@MIT.EDU (Dennis Baron)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 01 Mar 93 19:05:45 -0500.
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 93 06:55:19 EST
Joanne and I brought this up during our meeting with ChemE last
Thursday. We informed them of the new printing strategy and briefly
told them that they would either have to replace the printers or pick
up the cost of the printserver and telephone lines that are currently
being paid for by DCNS. I'm not sure this registered with them - they
tend to hear something different than we think we are saying - in this
case they may have heard "ACS will be giving us new printers".
We have a similar situation with EECS - though there they may have
moved some of the printers to non-Athena workstations. I'm pretty
sure DCNS is still paying for the phone lines. We should make sure
that departments are quoted appropriately for printer maintenance for
FY94 - AND that we get the cost of the phone lines out of the DCNS
cluster account. Perhaps it would be better to just remove the phone
lines and install a uVAX server for each printer... well, probably not
- we should convince the departments or ACS that they should buy new
printers!
Dennis
