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- From: roger@otago.ac.nz (Roger Grauwmeijer)
- Newsgroups: nz.general
- Subject: Re: VUW Library System Upgrade
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.161903.222@otago.ac.nz>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:19:03 +1300
- References: <199211160414.AA16145@rata.vuw.ac.nz> <Bxtsx8.42K@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
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- Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- In article <Bxtsx8.42K@comp.vuw.ac.nz>, andy@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Bond) writes:
- > In article <199211160414.AA16145@rata.vuw.ac.nz> Tony.Martindale@vuw.ac.nz (Tony Martindale) writes:
- >> Victoria University of Wellington Library System
- >>
- >> Major hardware upgrade Tuesday 24/11/92 - Thursday 26/11/92
- >>
- >> The current Library System hardware, an Ultimate 3040, is being
- >>upgraded to an Ultimate 7020 which will provide a noticeable
- >>performance improvement and more capacity.
- >
- > Is a 7020 just a bigger dinosaur than the 3040 or will it provide more
- > than simple performance improvements? Can we look forward to email
- > overdue and reservation reminders? Let's hope the 7020 has more than
- > a serial connection to the outside world so can finally lunge into the
- > 80's with avengance.
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- Hey! Ethernet wasn't even invented when these Honeywell dinosaurs were.
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- Rog.
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