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From: greenber@phri.UUCP (Ross Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <2217@phri.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 17:05:19 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 16 17:05:19 1986
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Reply-To: greenber@phri.UUCP (Ross Greenberg)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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One of the Major Banks here in NYC had a central machine at the heart
of their EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) Network. Seems one of the drives
(they had two machines, each doing a hot-backup of the other) went down.

Then one of the night operators got into a fight with the other ("Your
momma!",  "Sez..you", "Oh yeah?", etc), and it turned into a shoving
match.  One shove ended up against the RP06.

Average latency of a transaction on the system was < 1 minute.  They
spent three days recovering the 18 million dollars in transactions
tha were on the disk.  And the Cost of Funds at the time were *VERY* high!


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[phri rarely makes a guest-account user a spokesperson. Especially not me.]