[3186] in Hotline Meeting
klimt has a hardware problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (smyser@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 16 19:45:32 1991
From: smyser@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: crl-s@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 91 19:44:56 EST
Our Vaxstation in 9-536 (the electronic classroom) has an "amusing"
problem:
Its button that switches between BNC and thickwire plugs has
vanished from the machine.
This has the effect of switching the machine to thinwire, which takes it off
the net and causes all work to stop. Of course, we have a demo tonight and
another tomorrow that require the machine in the classroom to be working.
Accordingly, we have switched the pizza boxes of 'mies' in 9-514 and 'klimt'
in 9-536, so that the one with the bad button is not in the classroom anymore
but is in the backyard (9-514). We can move them back again on Friday.
Perhaps the machine will be fixed by field service quickly.... In any event,
we ought to have field service come out and decide what to replace to make
things better.
The machine was working all day today and then just spontaneously switched from
thickwire to thin. No one touched anything. So even if we figured out how to
push the button with a screwdriver or something, it could just trip again. The
best approach surely is to repair it now. Whaddya think?
Now that we're at war, what else can we do to screw things up?
Rob
