RIP D02 (was Re: Quick Survey)

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote:
. . .
> I just wish we had the spare drive space to mirror our 
> D02; on the other hand, it's more than a decade old, and 
> it's the only thing still in service here that's never 
> once lost a drive.

'Twould seem I spoke too soon. Our D02, "Saturn," tried to 
come up on its exercise cycle this afternoon, and it had a 
hard drive failure. On the load source.

Looking back, it's got between 50,000 and 100,000 hours on 
it without a single part being replaced, has outlasted its 
internal UPS by at least 5 years, as well as a lot of 
DOS/Windoze boxes and two terminals.

Of course, this will affect Touchtone's product line. The 
current CISC release of QuestView will be our last (I'd 
hoped to get one more CISC release), and we may not be 
able to provide tapes of it for pre-V3R2 boxes. 
(Fortunately, it's a stable release.) Future RISC releases 
will probably have a somewhat higher minimum OS/400 
release level than our traditional V3R7.

Saturn has been a really good box, and it's been working 
for Touchtone longer than I have. Requiescat.

--
JHHL