Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: > Mark > > Another favourite of mine goes back to the good old days of Unix / Xenix - > 15 odd years ago. This OS was a fantastic workhorse, but wasn't perfect > either and it had been on the market a long time. Few medical billing > systems were around and a few "medical records" from overseas. A few of us > used a Unix based medical billing system. Unlike windows now where you > click a shutdown icon, one had to give unix typed commands to shut down. > Has been changed now to make it more user friendly (and behave Windows > like). > > Now the IT company recommended a tape back up (I of course spent the money > initially & bought a tape back up). The practice decided to save money & do > backups onto floppies. Remember was a billing system only. After 6 months > one receptionist was doing something when on a single line (as was the way > Unix operated) displayed the question: Are you sure you want to Delete ? > She didn't think and typed Y for yes. She somehow had gotten into the > delete all records and on pressing Y, the practice was left with an empty > datbase. All patients were there, but 6 months of accounts etc gone. When > the IT company arrived to restore the Data from the floppies, it was noticed > the floppies were empty. Although they backed up every night, there was > some malfunction and it never actually backed up. > > Thus 6 months of billing records lost. The IT company removed the ability > to Delete data by hiding it. Also taught that practice to actually test > back ups regularly. > > With great power comes great responsibility.
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