[Info-vax] MicroVAX 2000, SCSI, and OpenVMS 7.3

[Steven Schweda]

> >   It's been many years, but I seem to recall a day or two
> > facing a normal fluorescent tube doing a good (enough) job.
> > (I never tried direct sunlight.)
>
> The numbers are on the data sheet, but I forget them now.
>
> I believe it is days in the sun, weeks under fluorescent lamps.

   Believe what you want, but I ran the experiment.  "Facing"
here meant quartz-touching-glass, not just being in a room
exposed to ("under") fluorescent ceiling lamps.  (My memory
says that a few hours was not enough, while one day was
plenty, but I conservatized my recommendation.)  Not all the
UV emission from the mercury vapor gets converted by the
phosphors, or stopped by the glass.

   It was enough to convince me of the value of covering the
window with a label after programming.