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From: jim@haring.UUCP
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Subject: McVax wis doon
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 23:44:01 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 29 23:44:01 1984
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Due to a power-failure outwith the control of the Computer Lab,
McVax and its chums were off the ether from around 22:00 on Friday
the 26th October until around 10:30 on Monday the 29th.

As far as we know, nothing was lost, and the backlog through seismo,
decvax and philabs has mostly been cleared. But sorry if the delays
inconvenienced anyone.

We are now installing a backup power system consisting of fifteen Dutch
mathematicians on bicycles, five dynamos per phase, they may as well do
something useful while pondering Fermat's Last Theorem.

Jim McKie    Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam
mcvax!jim