Denys writes:
 
>Wirt, I believe that you at least needed a WARMSTART after
>this surgery.  Since you pulled and replaced the batteries, the
>system did not stay in powerfail mode.
 
I did not mean to imply that the HP3000 did a powerfail recovery, although it
would certainly have been easy to interpret my sentence that way. Clearly, we
had to do a COOLSTART or a WARMSTART.
 
>Your exemplary record with the HP3000 is probably due to clean living.
 
My thoughts exactly.
 
Wirt Atmar