Subject: Old Computer Song, DEC-OH!
Summary: remember when VAXen wouldn't stay up for more than a week?

How many of you remember when you couldn't keep a VAX running for
more than a week?  Ah well, at least it was an improvement over
the PDP-11's ...

		  DEC-OH! 
(an old VAX lament to the Carribean tune of "Day-Oh")
  Jim Cordy, Queen's University, Kingston Canada

DEC-OH!  Oh, DE-EH-EC-OH!
      DEC man coming and machine still down.

Come, mister serviceman, service VAX-11,
      DEC man coming and machine still down.
Come, mister serviceman, service VAX-11,
      DEC man coming and machine still down.
Twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight hour wait!
      DEC man coming and machine still down.
Twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight hour wait!
      DEC man coming and machine still down.

Disk drive!  Oh, disk drive!
      Disk drive broken and machine still down.

Twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight hour wait!
      Disk drive broken and machine still down.
I really need my data, it's all out of date!
      Disk drive broken and machine still down.

Memory!  Oh, memory!
      Memory broken and machine still down.

Twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight hour wait!
      Memory broken and machine still down.
I can't recall a thing, I just can't concentrate!
      Memory broken and machine still down.

Unibus!!  Oh, unibus!
      Unibus broken and machine still down.

Twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight hour wait!
      Unibus broken and machine still down.
My fingers itch, I'm in a catatonic state!
      Unibus broken and machine still down.

Network!  Oh, network!
      Network broken and machine still down.

Come, mister serviceman, service SUN workstation,
      Network broken and machine still down.
Come, mister serviceman, service SUN workstation,
      Network broken and machine still down.
Twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight hour wait!
      Network broken and machine still down.
Twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight hour wait!
      Network broken and machine still down.

-- 
Prof. James R. Cordy				cordy@qucis.queensu.ca
Dept. of Computing and Information Science	Phone +1 (613) 545 6054
Queen's University at Kingston			FAX   +1 (613) 545 6513
Kingston, Canada K7L 3N6

