[evlatests] end of an era

[Eugene Cole]

We could hold an New Orleans style funeral procession!
-- Gene

Ken Sowinski wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Bryan Butler wrote:
>
>   
>>  the MODCOMPs have been shut off!
>>     
>
> Bryan seems to have stolen my thunder.
>
> The Modcomps were indeed powered down this at two 'o clock
> this afternoon.  Fred and I agreed to leave them intact for
> a week or two just in case I want to retrieve anything else,
> and then we will salvage the bits that might be useful and
> leave the rest for the trash bin.  After all the talk of
> wasting power I was disappointed to see that the UPS power
> output went from 103 kW to 97 kW when the Modcomps were
> turned off.  The correlator and chillers and pumps are
> clearly the largest part of the load.
>
> We must be close to a record for the longest running software.
> There were bits of code written by Barry, Gareth, Bill Randolph
> and me in 1974 that were still running only little changed
> when the MOdcomps were abandoned in June of 2007.
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