RE: LIMITING Programmer ACCES TO LIVE DATA

Whenever we ran payroll at one of my jobs the person who ran payroll (one
of the department heads) would actually tape sheets of computer paper over
the computer room windows.  [Or was that when they ran sales analysis?]

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com




>I knew of a place in Michigan that used to run their payroll on a S/36.
>They had two copies of the library.  One for executives and one for the
>rest.  They would delete one and install the other when they wanted to
>run the payroll.  All wires leading out of the computer room were severed
>when the executive payroll was loaded.  When complete, the DELETE was ran





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