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Re: The status of Alden

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  • Subject: Re: The status of Alden
  • Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:12:16 +0000 (GMT)
Hi All,

Can anyone confirm this?  Not that I don't trust you
Gilbert.... because I do.  But if Alden *is* going 
under that will cause a lot of work in a short time
since classes get underway next week.  But I don't 
want to go into that mode unless necessary!.

Pete.

Peter Schmid
Sr. Programmer/Analyst SUNY at Albany 
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Phone:(518)-442-4571
E-Mail:address@hidden


>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:37:15 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden>
>cc: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: The status of Alden
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Jim Koermer wrote:
>
>> 
>> Easy come, easy go... Our Alden ku-band DDPLUS feed was back up 28/1908Z 
(after
>> being down since 26/1201Z), but seems to be dead again at 29/0113Z.
>> 
>> We never experienced any problems (that I can tell) during this period with
>> Alden's DIFAX ku-band feed.
>
>Thursday night, Alden employees were told to get out of the building by
>the landlord, and the building was locked down. One guess why. Yesterday
>afternoon, an officer of the company was escorted into the building for
>just a few minutes to bring up the dead services. But DDPLUS choked again
>last night.
>
>Alden's remaining staff have been told not to report this week, and
>attorneys from both landlord and Alden are going back and forth with each
>other to get inside the building. Until then, calls to them will be
>fruitless.
>
>That's all I can tell you about the data situation at the moment.
>
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