Downtown Las Cruces, N.M. 1901

Main Street, looking south. If you were to turn
right at the dust cloud at the far end of the street
and proceed five blocks west, you would
find yourself at the modern headquarters
of AICS Research, 640 West Las Cruces Avenue.

By 1920, Main Street was paved and the
automobile had replaced the horse.


The Luxurious Rio Grande Hotel 1887

The Rio Grande Hotel provided the traveler
with a selection of fourteen rooms, each with
hot and cold running water, a private corral
for their horses and a meat market next door.

The building is constructed of adobe (mud and straw),
built in the Territorial Style. One of AICS Research's
four buildings is similarly constructed, although
only one story in height.


The Las Cruces Railroad Depot 1901

AICS Research owns most of one block in the
Alameda-Depot Historic District, just one block
from the depot itself. The depot has changed
surprisingly little over the last century.

The City of Las Cruces has recently spent close
to a million dollars renovating the depot.
Although its use is still undetermined, many want it
to become an active train station again.


Col. Pancho Villa and his Staff 1915

Col. Villa was a common visitor to Las Cruces
during his lifetime. Indeed, he and President
Woodrow Wilson were said to have slept in the
same room in one of Las Cruces' finer hotels.

Villa led the first successful attack on the
United States since the British invasion in 1812,
raiding the small town of Columbus, N.M., 70 miles
west of Las Cruces.


 

Preserving HP3000 History

Migrating Off of the HP3000?

If you are intending to migrate off the HP3000 in either the near future or in the next few years, you may be concerned about how you will access the mass of data you currently have on the HP3000 five or ten years from now.

Because it our intention to stay on the HP3000 indefinitely, and because we have a number of HP3000's available, as well as broadband data communications, we will be able to store your historical records in native HP3000 format for as long as you care to have them maintained -- and yet have that information instantly available.


Service Cost

The cost for the service is $0.10 (ten cents) per megabyte per month, or $100/gigabyte/month, measured against the peak usage during the month. The minimum charge is $100/month.


Service Availability

You will be able to access your data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with the exception of those very short periods of time when an automatic store-to-disc delta backup will be performed.

You will most likely wish to store either IMAGE databases or flat files in your account. Two query languages will be provided for your convenience, HP's Query and AICS Research's QueryCalc. Both products are very easy to learn to use and manuals for both are on-line. Two editors, HP's Edit/3000 and Quad, will be available to examine your flat files.


Communications

AICS Research maintains a 4Mbps ADSL line into the organization (the equivalent of nearly three T1 lines), thus you should never see bandwidth limitations at AICS Research. Nonetheless, because we are located only two blocks from the telephone company's central office, we can upgrade to 8Mbps ADSL at any time, should the need ever arise.

If you use AICS Research's freely available terminal emulator, QCTerm, as your access medium, you will automatically use QCTerm's "advanced telnet" capabilities. Advanced telnet renders the distance to AICS Research from anywhere in the world irrelevant. Your data will seem as if it is at your feet.

You will have access to both telnet and FTP communications into your data.


Data Security

AICS Research's HP3000's are housed in four separate buildings, all interconnected with an underground LAN. The HP3000 on which your data will reside will be backed up every night using HP's store-to-disc technology, with the resulting file being FTP'ed to another HP3000 two buildings away. It is beyond all likelihood that any fire could reach such a distance. All buildings are alarmed, fireproofed and equipped with automatically-dialing fire alarms.

Tape backups are taken off-site once per month. Account, group and user passwords will be assigned by you. Although AICS Research personnel will need to know those passwords, AICS Research has been dealing with corporate proprietary information for 25 years and maintains the highest ethical standards. Nothing is ever discussed with anyone outside those few who have a right to that information.


For More Information

Please contact:

Technical Support
AICS Research, Inc.
640 West Las Cruces Ave
Las Cruces, NM 88005

(800) AICS-INC
(505) 524-9800
(505) 526-4700 fax

support@aics-research.com

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