Advantages of in-house (Customer Service) VAX:

  o Stable, multi-user capability

  o Expansion capability from MIS system for in-house databases,
    word processing, electronic mail

  o Stable Andover/Cambridge Ethernet bridge

  o Documentation transfer Andover/Cambridge,
    formatting (Botex), and reproduction (Imagen)

  o Operational file serving for Lambdas; 
    dependable, automatic file backups

  o Reproducing/debugging customer problems, especially for
        - communications (TCP/IP, Chaosnet, Kermit, serial I/O)
        - file sharing
        - language compatibility (CommonLisp, Pascal, Fortran)
        - supports both VMS and DEC Unix

  o Second stage of LMI Mail project: bulletin boards, 800 #

  o Tape duplicating/verifying





*** Note: the Kennedy tape drive is supported on VAX; it has not
    been successfully hooked up to Lambda