[evlatests] end of an era

[Pat Van Buskirk]

Or we could put the control room back for the operators!

Cheers,
Pat


Eugene Cole wrote:
> 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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