Dear Mr. Rego:

Feel free to edit and publish my "success story".

>
> Any volunteers?  I'll be delighted to feature HP3000 success stories on the
> back cover of Interact magazine as my way of putting my money where my
> mouth is.

I have not felt our HP3000 story from the point of view of upgrading a
success story.
* We have been using a HP 3000 GX with MPE/V since January 4, 1990.*
 Considering, however, that I have never seen before and after any other
computer (ICL, IBM, DEC anything you want) during my 25 years long affair
with computers that has never any hardware error, the maintenance of the
HP 3000 is a SUCCESS story. The HP3000 has a superior shutdown system for
the cases of blackout than any other computer. In case of a one second
blackout an IBM PC stuffs the hard disk with crosslinked files and the
index files of the dBASE-like systems are damaged. The worst case that may
happen on our HP3000 after a short blackout that the system becomes very
slow, and I have to make a Warmstart. I praise the backup and logging
tools of the HP 3000, too. We have never lost mission critical data.  I
remember two cases, when have restore much data. Both case was caused by
human error, like Chernobyl - but the damage was not at all Chernobyl.  In
the first case the HP serviceman installed a magtape unit with logged on
users, and all open files lost. In the second case I mixed up the Reload
with the Update - on the day after the birth of my grandson.  This time
the magtape of the last DBSTORE was damaged, so I had to execute the
DBSTORE+DBRECOV procedure answering ringing bells of nervous users and
nervous family members.


  > Perhaps HP can do some kind of "matching fund" stuff to publish
> similar ads on the mainstream press,

                        Best regards

                                             Frank

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