In article <1995Nov27.214833@miavx1>, I wrote (in part):
>
>      Ocean, the batch operations component of the Digital OpenVMS cluster
> in Oxford, MiaVX1, has suffered what appears to be a hardware failure,
> possibly involving its power supply.
 
Ocean went down at approximately 6pm Monday evening.
 
>                                       As a result, Ocean is currently
> offline and the following services it hosts are unavailable:
>
>                              ACQUIRE disk space
>                        Batch services (including Gaus)
> Batch jobs including nightly update of the electronic Directory (PHonebook)
>                    BITNET access for the entire University
>     (including BITNET e-mail and interactive file transfer and messaging)
>                      Paging service via electronic mail
 
            VAXShare (for Macintosh access to OpenVMS resources)
is also unavailable.  It actually went down approximately an hour before
Ocean.
 
>      MCIS regrets inconvenience caused by this service interruption.
 
     And we're *thoroughly* investigating this incident as well as incidents
from last week.
 
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                                John B Harlan
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