Date   : Tue, 11 Jan 1983 14:18:08-PST
From   : Lauren Weinstein <vortex!lauren@lbl-csam.arpa>
Subject: Vortex Returns

Just a quick note to let everyone know that "vortex" has finally
returned to the, uh, "air".  Many thanks to everyone who responded
to my plea after the disk failure here -- and a special thank-you
to those of you who dropped by to help out.

Just in case anybody is curious... The Memorex 101 disk drive appears
to be defective *under* the sealed bubble -- so I've declared it to
be a total loss for the time being.  Vortex is now running on a 12.6
Meg 5 1/4" Winchester, loaned to me for a couple of months by a
gracious gentleman at Bell Labs.  It took me quite a while to get
it working properly with my hardware (the controller manufacturer did not
provide a reasonable driver for that particular disk, so my work
was cut out for me), and even longer to restore my voluminous backups
onto the new drive.  I have the loan of this drive for a couple of
months, what happens after that is still exceedingly unclear.

But for now, at least, the system seems to be running well (though somewhat
slower because of disk limitations) and the crisis appears to be over,
at least for a little while.  Thanks again.

--Lauren--