In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/29/2005
at 02:22 PM, Bruce Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>CA DMV seems to be prone to making bad implementation choices. Back
>when I was working for Univac (35 years ago) on the former RCA
>systems, I found that the CA DMV systems were on RCA equipment, with
>the databases on the RCA RACE equipment (similar to the IBM data
>cells, but not compatible).
The 3488 was quite different from the 2321. It had a separate
extraction mechanism for each magazine instead of stringing the
magazines around a rotating drum, and used a linear raceway for the
extracted cards. The performance and reliability issues of the two
devices[1] were quite different.
[1] Yes, both of them had significant issues.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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