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| 61.1 | well at least I read these notes | CUCKOO::WRIGHT | Whats this do? | Tue Sep 08 1987 15:36 | 6 |
| Maybe you thought that I was joking or maybe no-one has read this.
Can someone please do something about it?
Its blowing my mind every time I go and collect a printout! :-�
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| 61.2 | well, there's 2 of us !! | RDGE00::BATE | It IS life, but not as we know it | Wed Sep 09 1987 10:39 | 18 |
| Tony Wright is RIGHT !
I spent half of Monday refolding the *many* listings I had to print
simply because the U3 printer is sited right next to the U9 machine,
the extracted air from which blows any printout on the U3 printer
halfway to the door in a hell of a mess. This is not funny when
you have > 100 programs to print !!!!!!
Has anyone ever thought of trying to provide a completely separate
print room ? In non-DEC installations, I have always been advised
(by DEC Field Service engineers) to keep the printers out of the
room housing the computers. This is partly because of the amount
of dust created by paper running through the printers and partly
to avoid exactly the situation we currently have here !
A case of "do as we say, not as we do" ?
Bob
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| 61.3 | Relief may be at hand? | RDGE00::RUSSELL | Wetnerking is the future, today! | Wed Sep 09 1987 10:55 | 9 |
| I "understand" a print room is being prepared, and is the room
opposite the old CAS room, near the pool table.
All the printers (and the LPS-40 when it comes) will be
going in there, and I am sure one of the system management team
can confirm (or otherwise) the intention and the schedules..
Peter.
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| 61.4 | its coming....its coming.... | ELBOW::DRAPER | Steve Draper | Wed Sep 09 1987 13:37 | 22 |
| A new printer room and a new microvax room are currently being prepared
(see note 57.0). The current situation is as follows:
Comms cables are being laid *today*.
Power supply will be installed around this weekend
Some additional hardware is still required (DELNIs etc). This is
expected to be done during the next 5 - 7 days.
The LPS40 *has* arrived and is in the loading bay. FS may come and
unpack it this week, but installation cannot take place until next
week at the earliest (lack of power, you see).
FS/IS/other gorillas are required to move the printers from the
main computer room (probably towards the end of next week)
As soon as some of the dates/times mentioned above become clearer,
more announcements will be made
steve
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| 61.5 | It's coming? so is Basingstoke.. | RDGE00::RUSSELL | Wetnerking is the future, today! | Fri Sep 11 1987 14:21 | 13 |
| Re .-1
>The LPS40 *has* arrived and is in the loading bay. FS may come and
>unpack it this week, but installation cannot take place until next
>week at the earliest (lack of power, you see).
If you need some 10p's or 50p's for the meter, reception or
the canteen usually have change.....
Peter :^)
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| 61.6 | Ouch! | GROYNE::HAYES | Ian Hayes, DTN 830 ext 4992 | Mon Sep 14 1987 18:28 | 3 |
| 10p and 50p coins are no good - it only takes light coins!
Grooannn!
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| 61.7 | LPS40 has arrived - at last | RDGE00::THOMPSON | | Mon Sep 28 1987 19:03 | 18 |
| The LPS40 printer has been installed in the new printer room and
is available on FUTURS/VULCAN/ADG. The printer is referred to by
the DECNET node name - EYE - node number 41.783
For 'normal' print jobs use the queue lps40$eye.
Other queue names are for documents formatted for
REGIS/POSTSCRIPT/TEK4014 escape codes.
See the online help for new PRINTSERVER40 qualifiers for the PRINT
command.
The new printer will accept ordinary photocopying paper as well
as transparencies and A3 size paper. Please note that the LN03 printers
should use DEC laser printer paper ONLY to avoid maintenance problems.
The client server software can be installed on microvaxes - save
set is OPG::SDC_KIT:LPS40C010.A
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| 61.8 | When the wind stops blowing | RDGE00::THOMPSON | | Fri Oct 09 1987 17:03 | 11 |
| The LP25 printer on RDGE28 (RDGE28_TTA3) will be moved to the new
printer room next week (12-16 Oct) along with the two LN03 printers
on U28.
To complete the move the LAT software must be upgraded and LATplus
installed on the ADG cluster so that a DECserver can be used for the
printer connection to U28. The upgrade will require a reboot of
both U9 and U28 and I intend to take down both systems from 12:00
until approx 14:00 on Tuesday. Please let me know if this is not
convenient.
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| 61.9 | Yet another printer move | RDGE28::THOMPSON | | Wed Oct 21 1987 17:06 | 14 |
| Once upon a time RDGE00 had a fast printer called an LP11 that printed
all the files people sent to a queue called RDGE00_LPA0 and some
of the files that people sent to SYS$PRINT.
Then one day a new VAX processor arrived that needed lots of Amps
to make it work so the poor old LP11 was switched off.
Luckily, there was another printer called an LP25 that took over
the job of the old LP11 and this printer lived along with lots of
other printers in new room built especially for it and all its friends
in Acre Road.
So all the VAX printers lived happliy ever after in their new room
and the LP11 was disemboweled by a scrap merchant.
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| 61.10 | What a waste. | RDGE00::RUSSELL | Where is Basingstoke, anyway? | Thu Oct 22 1987 10:06 | 7 |
| It's a pity the LP11 wasn't hooked up to one the PDP's that
currently have **no** printer capability........
Peter :^(
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| 61.11 | Doubly so... | GROYNE::HAYES | Ian Hayes, DTN 830 ext 4992 | Thu Oct 22 1987 18:26 | 5 |
| Jerry,
why did we scrap the fast (sort of) LP11 instead of the slower
LP25?
Ian (fed up with waiting for printout!)
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| 61.12 | More power Scotty... | FOOT::THOMPSON | | Thu Nov 05 1987 13:21 | 8 |
| lp25 can be driven from a terminal line and can therefore be relocated
anywhere in the building near a decserver.
lp11 can only be driven over a short distance. As we're lacking
Amps in the machine room we've had to trade off speed of printing
for speed of processing and disc space.
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| 61.13 | Terminal display for print queues | FOOT::THOMPSON | | Thu Nov 19 1987 16:55 | 9 |
| There is now a feindishly cunning terminal display, well VT100 display
anyway, in the printer room which shows the jobs in print queues
on the ADG cluster. Just press the buttons and watch the screen
to get an up to date fully-integrated-information-display-system
picture of just why your job has not appeared yet.
It can presently show the queues LN03$Q2, RDGE28_TTA3 , RDGE00_LPA0
and SYS$PRINT. For LPS40 jobs use the VT220 console near the LPS40
printer.
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