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== The Second Coming of Digital Logging ==

In Summer 2012, a plan was devised to start decommissioning these then 12-year-old devices. Due to the need for something that was provably highly stable (at least 42 days continuous service runtime), it took the next two academic years to reach a point where the replacement devices, uryred and uryblue (see [[Second Generation Computing Loggers]]), were considered stable enough to prepare turning off loggers 1 and 2.

A date was set for Friday, Week 10 of the Summer Term 2013/4, as it was the end of an academic year and also team veteran [[Lloyd Wallis]]'s last day in York (and birthday). It would be a ceremonial event where the loggers would be considered no longer mission-critical to our operations. However, as this was a short time before many components reached 10 years uptime, it was decided that they would likely be kept running (albeit not necessarily doing much) until that milestone was reached.

On Wednesday, Week 10 (25/06/2014), it was discovered that logger1 was not as healthy as was hoped - his PSU fan had failed and he was running hot. As a result, the decommissioning was brought forward to that evening.

== Trivia ==

* In Summer 2011/12, a tenth birthday cake was made for logger2's disk installation date. It was enjoyed at a station meeting, and a poem was written in a birthday card for him. Someone should transcribe this.

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+== The Second Coming of Digital Logging ==
+In Summer 2012, a plan was devised to start decommissioning these then 12-year-old devices. Due to the need for something that was provably highly stable (at least 42 days continuous service runtime), it took the next two academic years to reach a point where the replacement devices, uryred and uryblue (see [[Second Generation Computing Loggers]]), were considered stable enough to prepare turning off loggers 1 and 2.
+A date was set for Friday, Week 10 of the Summer Term 2013/4, as it was the end of an academic year and also team veteran [[Lloyd Wallis]]'s last day in York (and birthday). It would be a ceremonial event where the loggers would be considered no longer mission-critical to our operations. However, as this was a short time before many components reached 10 years uptime, it was decided that they would likely be kept running (albeit not necessarily doing much) until that milestone was reached.
+On Wednesday, Week 10 (25/06/2014), it was discovered that logger1 was not as healthy as was hoped - his PSU fan had failed and he was running hot. As a result, the decommissioning was brought forward to that evening.
+== Trivia ==
+* In Summer 2011/12, a tenth birthday cake was made for logger2's disk installation date. It was enjoyed at a station meeting, and a poem was written in a birthday card for him. Someone should transcribe this.
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