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Well, this was getting too good to pass up, so I called up to W-B to see
what's happening.


The short story is that due to a recalcitrant city management not wanting
to pay for support contract in a timely manner, their support contract was
canceled and lapsed.

Then they had a DASD failure.  And they're still down.  Their MIS Mgr says
that IBM gave them a worse case scenerio price (he believes) of about
$10k.  I told him to call Pace-Butler or Diamond Data, buy a used 9632 and
get 2 hrs of IBM time to install the thing and start loading back up
tomarrow...he should be back hardware wise (if only a single DASD, etc.,)
for under $2k.

BTW, they ARE using CURRENT Date (were using 1999 for a while then they
discovered that V2R1.1 (not a typo!) would support current date...:)

Sounds like it's time to replace a mayor and city manager to me folks...:)

Don in DC





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