Per order of the Board of Governors, TPS reports must always be filed as (paper) hardcopy, which is a good thing considering the forthcoming planned network outages throughout August at Powerworld HQ and the University as we upgrade our network infrastructure and technology facilities for the forthcoming academic term.
[size=8pt]http://mistman.pdp10.org/pub/filebox/fwg/wgzoo/netnews/a01/37
Basically, we'll be replacing the current copper twisted pair lines with fibre as our inter-node trunks, adding a couple more systems (another MicroVAX in 130/141 and a univax node for the nuclear research lab), and going over to DS4 T-carrier trunks, Ma Bell willing, to better handle incoming and outgoing traffic between there and the outside world--this is also what our forthcoming new phone system (installation tentatively set for Christmas break 2012/2013) will connect to the rest of the telephone network over. w00t w00t!!