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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R.
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> Ditto. I worked for a state government for a short while and
> the biggest complaint I got was the hyper-inflated prices IT
> was charging other departments for support and programming.
As an ex-bureaucrat myself, "I feel your pain". The agency I worked in was
charged $2,000.00 per CPU second (in the early 1980s) on the host agency's
brand-new IBM 3081, along with all the various and sundry storage, printing
and "consulting" fees.
Then we acquired a proprietary "document server" based on the blazingly-fast
Intel 80186 CPU, with a gargantuan 60MB disk drive! We were in "deep
clover" for about six months.... :-)
-jc-
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