"J. Philip Miller" <phil@wubios.wustl.edu> (06/06/91)
I had expected to see a posting from someone else here in St. Louis
because it has been front page news for the last several days that a
SWBT computer went out last friday with serious outages. No technical
details were given, but apparently some 2500 data lines were affected,
producing the following outages:
* several hundred ATM terminals were not functional.
* teller terminals within some branch banks were not functional.
* money transfers for the Federal Reserve bank were disrupted.
* off track betting at a local race track was not operational.
What I find most puzzling is that according to the press it took over
THREE DAYS to "reprogram" all of the connections. No backups?
Anyone know the real story?
J. Philip Miller, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Box 8067
Washington University Medical School, St. Louis MO 63110
phil@wubios.WUstl.edu - Internet (314) 362-3617
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