The only constant here at Atari, is change...

Beginning the first week in October (next week in case you're not looking):

CHARM will be history. KIM will have been reincarnated as a new micro-vax 3800.
It'll have 48Mb of memory and except for a disk, a 9-track tape drive and an
ethernet interface, it'll have no other peripherals. A microvax 3800 is rated at
3.8 times that of a 780, which is what old KIM and CHARM are. I believe this
may improve the VAX responsiveness somewhat.

All the terminals, printers, devsys's, etc. that were connected directly to KIM
or CHARM instead will be plugged into what is known as a "terminal server". The
terminal server plugs into the ethernet thereby giving all engineering terminals
a "soft" connection to any Vax or Unix system on the ethernet. You will need
to know how to use the server, so I recommend you read the file

	DOK:TERMINAL_SERVER.DOC

I'd have mailed it, but I wanted to keep this message short and to the point.

ds

We are going to do some major work in the computer room this coming weekend.
This involves recabling terminal, power and network connections. As a result,
ALL of the systems will be down ALL day saturday (9/29) and very probably
all day sunday too.

The biggest job for us is the removal of the two older engineering Vaxes and the
re-installation of a  new one. In an effort to see to it that the engineering
computers are up and running monday morning 10/1, I will need to take them down
friday evening. The following schedule approximates what will be available:

	Before	After	
	5pm	5pm	
System	9/28	9/28	9/29    9/30    10/1
------	-----	-----	-----	-----	-----
MIKE	Up	Up	Down	Down	Up
ERNIE	Up	Up	Down	Down	Up
BERT	Up	Up	Down	Down	Up
SANDY	Up	Up	Down	Down	Up
ICY	Up	Up	Down	Down	Up
GAWD	Up	Up	Down	Down	Up
KIM	Up	Down	Down	Down	Up
CHARM	Up	r.i.p.	----------------------->
BIB	Up	r.i.p.	----------------------->

I can't guarantee that this schedule will be followed exactly and I don't
want to cripple our efforts by promising much more than the systems
will be up on 10/1/90.

ds