Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Vax reliability Message-ID: <2719@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 20-Oct-84 18:05:54 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.2719 Posted: Sat Oct 20 18:05:54 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 16:17:47 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 28 From: medin@ucbarpa.BERKELEY (Milo Medin) I just brought up a 730 recently, converting it from VMS to 4.2 unix. DEC had said the thing had passed the acceptance checks, but when I tried to boot up 4.2 the tape wouldnt go. So I brought up VMS again and found it wouldn't work there either. We took it aprt and found out the unibus extender cable was improperly installed. Then we found DEC hadnt hooked the power controllers up right, so we rewired it and it all gets switched from the front panel. This is all after DEC replaced the memory controller and unibus cabling before they turned it over to us. This made me curious so I asked the folks who know about vaxen here and they told me better than 25% of the vaxes arriving here at Ames do so DOA! I've never seen a vt100 terminal work completely well out of the box, and the pro-350 has lots of problems with screen alignment as well. Are we here at NASA getting poor QC or is it all over? I would think a company having that much trouble with QC couldnt stay in business long. One thing about IBM, the computers work when they tell you its working, tho I detest the way the things go. Sigh, I have a new 750 on order, I hope that at least works, its just a CPU, nothing else. Thats not asking for too much I think... Milo Medin Telecommunications Office NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA