[Info-vax] Deathrow Status

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-20, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>
> The Deathrow cluster is down.
>
> There was a surprise-relocation of the cluster hardware into another 
> rack in the Quadrant Information Security data center.
>

Serious response: thanks for the information. It will be interesting
to see why it happened.

> Things I don't know:
> 1: when it'll be back.
> 10: whether it'll be back.
> 11: what went wrong; whether hardware, software, or re-cabling.
> 100: when further details or status will be available.
> 101: when console access might be reestablished.
> 110: etc.
>

Not so serious: base 2 list numbering is old hat. :-) If you want to
get really creative, try outputting the EBCDIC or Radix-50 binary
values for the numeric digits in those character sets.

Simon.

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