Thus it was written in the epistle of Joe Geiser,
>
> (As a matter of fact, only *1* shop that we know of, actually still runs the
> paper copy, and the system manager actually reads the console traffic from
> the FOUR machines each day, looking for anything to nail something on
> someone).

Joe,
  You may now make that *2* shops that do actual paper copy logging :-).  We
keep a month of console logs and though I don't go through them trying to catch
folks (who has time for that!?! and who would want to even if he had time?)
they have come in handy when tracing problems or checking up on what happened.
At the very least, they come in handy when our head operator is out and a
student operator comes to me for help.  I can quickly scan back and see what
has been tried so far. and talk her through the sequence of events.  Our
console log is via "log bottom" on the terminal which has the disadvantage that
we have to turn it back on after loss of power (fairly rare) but otherwise
we've had no trouble with it.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief
glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of
such beauty as may spring from mathematics.
                                      -- Bell, Eric Temple (1883-1960)