Anything goes that's required to make a system work and prevent outages, even when other events are going on in the computer centre (read below) because this boy scout was always taught to be prepared.
[size=8pt]The final stage of the computer centre's remodelling (i.e. the long-awaited expansion of the user area into the long-vacated classroom #129) is nigh upon us, somewhat earlier than we expected and on really short notice. For the duration of renovating we will be unable to use 130/141 at all. My guess is it will take about two weeks, but we have very little control over this.
During this period we will be operating as best we can from a temporary outpost across the hallway in the library and adjoining Lecture Hall #12. We will be shutting down guvax and dxclpdpx on Wednesday night for the move to LH12. The outpost won't include the wgzoo equipment or the magtape reader. I am *hoping* we can still provide normal service on our ethernet/telnet nodes. We will probably need both Thursday and Friday to complete the move, so there probably will be no BSD or TOPS20 service during this time. Limited service from LH12 will start whenever we're done moving the equipment; at the end of renovation, there will be another short interruption whilst we move everything back.
Routers and cables (cat5 & coaxial) will be available to connect a decent number of terminals in LH12, so anyone who wants to loan us their private terminal for use as a public terminal during this period will have priority over its use.
Oh, and happy boithday, quad!