SECTION 4A - SYSTEM PROGRAMMING
History (H)
This selection gives a brief summary of various events and may be
useful to the system operator or to the factory in determining
problems and observing paging patterns.
Power hits
The number of times that power has been applied to the Model 16. This
shows how many power failures have been experienced.
Reset hits
The number of times that the Model 16 performed a hardware Reset
without having lost power. This would likely be caused by pressing the
RESET button on the front panel or by receipt of a Break from a CRT or
remote terminal.
Transaction block responses
These are the three responses that the Model 16 returns when it is in
the Buffered Paging modes. When validated Users are successfully
paged, a large proportion of <ACK>s should accumulate in proportion to
<NAK>s and <RS>s. A large number of <RS>s will probably indicate that
invalid Users are being paged or that the paging batches are
frequently full. A large number of <NAK>s indicates that data block
checksums are incorrect, possibly due to bad phone connections.
Pages
The number of pages placed.
Tone Only pages placed
The number of pages sent that had no accompanying message.
Message lengths of pages placed
These four values record how many messages have been sent that fall
into each size category.
CLEAR paging history
A "Yes" response to this question will reset the following values to
zero.
Tone Only pages placed
Message lengths of pages placed (4 values)
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