Warp wrote:
>   I can only imagine how expensive it is to backup all that information
> (and I have hard time believing they don't backup it). 

Back in 1992 or so, I spent about a week locked in with EDS's credit card 
processing systems. (EDS handled at least the top four credit card banks at 
the time, and of course a bunch of other stuff.) A room maybe 50 meters on a 
side, two power feeds from two separate electric companies, full of 
mainframes, printers, etc. There were at least three people at any given 
time wheeling carts full of tapes between the tape changers and the back 
room. Plus two people on "wheel fresh paper to the 1600LPM line printers" 
duty. It was a pretty impressive sight.

As for AT&T, altho I never thought to ask about backup stuff, I do know they 
had at least 400 people full-time coding SQL to maintain it.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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