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From: randy@wlcrjs.UUCP (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: My interesting Experiences with the 3B2 (to say the best!)
Message-ID: <126@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 08:59:49 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 11 08:59:49 1985
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Reply-To: randy@wlcrjs.UUCP (Randy Suess)
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In article <271@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>This article is long, but I hope informative to anyone interested in the 3B2:
>
>> 	I work in a Microcomputer Lab at Rutgers University and we have been
>> 	working with the AT&T 3B2 for roughly 2 months.  At this point I wish
>> 	mention my experiences and I am curious if anyone has had the same of
>> 	troubles.

	I have had a Public Access UN*X system running now for about 2
years on a Altos 986 with from 2 40 meg up to to 80 meg drives.  The most
users it could support was 4 and when news unpacked it died.  I have just
obtained a 3b2/300 with a 32 meg disk, which I promptly replaced with a 
pair of 80's and with 6 users doing compiles of rn, news unpacking
is hardly noticed. This is a fairly new 3b2 with Sys V Rel 2.2 and the
compiler is the latest release with flexnames.  We have had no downtime
for a month other than my screwing things up.  I don't have a XM yet,
(impossible to find in the midwest) so I added the second drive in my own
cabinet and connected directly to the 3b.  This accounted for some of the
downtime untill I figured the 3b2 wanted to shut off the second drive before
it itself powered down.  I guess this is taken care of automaticaly with
the XM unit.  Honey-danber uucp is supplied, and it beats the pants off of
any other uucp I have ever seen.  My news feed and I have been at odds
for years because of the un-reliability of Altos's(XENIX) uucp, but so far
we have not had one dropped transmission that could not be accounted for
by EXTREMELY noisy fone lines.
	I ma extremely pleased with the 3b2 but not with AT&T.  Their
attitude is that since I am an individual, I know nothing about computers
and will have to pay for all info/help.  It was a real joy to try to
obtain the DEVTOOLS disk to initilize the hard disks.  They kept insisting
that it was a tech only diagnostic and that I wouldn't know how to use it.
That is a whole different story, however.
	At least now I can say 'Public Access UNIX'

-- 
.. that's the biz, sweetheart...
Randy Suess
chi-net - Public Access UN*X
(312) 545 7535 (h) (312) 283 0559 (system)
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